Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I view this change in the default backend as similar to the rewrite in > C in that it is an implementation detail we're changing that should be > transparent (and beneficial in terms of performance) to the > user. There we provided a configuration variable but not a command > line option to control if it was used or not. Do you mean things like GIT_TEST_ADD_I_USE_BUILTIN? I think it is OK to have such an escape mechanism to allow people to opt out of a new reimplementation until it matures, but I do not offhand recall doing so with config.
