Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Keep in mind this _only_ affects Git's config variables. So a script > feeding git via GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, etc, shouldn't change at all with this > code. Ah, that changes the equation somewhat ;-) > So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or > even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer. If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in obscure scripts any longer. Git is used by too many people who have never seen its source these days.