Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If we are doing the usual "prime with configuration variables and > then override from the commnad line option" thing, then you cannot > tell these two cases apart, but I happen to think that it is better > to fail (and not to ignore silently) consistently whether the > "compute an appropriate base automatically" came from config or > command line, so... If we really need to tell these two apart, we'd invent a new variable (we only need a single bit) to record "did we get this base setting from the command line?" along with what we are already doing. You would need to use a option callback instead of a simple OPT_STRING() to parse the "base" option, but I think it should be straightforward.
