On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:00:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Presumably we can invoke N git <something>, where those <something> have > > different pager.<something> config... > > A tangent, but pager.<cmd> should be renamed/transitioned to > pager.<cmd>.program, I would think. Not that we allow characters > that are unsafe in the configuration variable names (like dot ".") > in the names of Git subcommands right now, but any name that is > taken from an unbounded set should not appear anywhere but the > second level of a three-level configuration variable name. It does come up even now for custom commands or aliases. Here's an old discussion of somebody with an underscore: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20150206124528.GA18859@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ It would also allow other per-pager settings, though I don't off-hand remember any that would be useful. Splitting "enabled" from "command" would be nice, but not that important. Per-pager color.pager settings would potentially be useful, but it's a pretty obscure feature in the first place. I'm definitely in favor of this in the long term, but I don't think there's any urgency in attaching it to the current discussion (that lack of urgency is why it has gone un-implemented for the past 6 years). -Peff
