On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 1:29 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see how a new "abbreviatedOptions" is plausibly going to crowd > out anything else, sounds pretty unambiguous to me. By crowded I mean a lot of configuration variables under "core" > By my count out of the the existing GIT_* variables in git.txt around > 1/3 are already configurable via config, another 1/3 (all the GIT_TRACE > stuff) is something we've wanted to have configurable in the past (but > nobody's gotten around to writing patches for). > > I think it's fair to say that when we normally add user-configurable > stuff we do it as config, not as new env vars. I disagree that not every configuration knob has to be a configuration variable, especially when core.* more or less becomes a dictionary that you can't really read anymore (unless you know the key to look for). But I see you're dead set on adding config vars. Go ahead. -- Duy
