On Wed, Jan 26 2022, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > The `git` executable has these two very useful options: > > -C <directory>: > switch to the specified directory before performing any actions > > -c <key>=<value>: > temporarily configure this setting for the duration of the > specified scalar subcommand > > With this commit, we teach the `scalar` executable the same trick. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > scalar: accept -C and -c options > > This makes the scalar command a bit more handy by offering the same -c > <key>=<value> and -C <directory> options as the git command. > > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1130%2Fdscho%2Fscalar-c-and-C-v1 > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1130/dscho/scalar-c-and-C-v1 > Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1130 I think it would help for context to note that this patch had at least 6 submissions on the ML already as part of early versions of the scalar series. Here's the CL of the iteration that ejected it: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1005.v7.git.1637158762.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx/ Where you summarized: * The patch that adds support for -c <key>=<value> and -C <directory> was moved to its own add-on patch series: While it is obvious that those options are valuable to have, an open question is whether there are other "pre-command" options in git that would be useful, too, and I would like to postpone that discussion to that date. Having been involved in those discussions I can't remember what the pre-command options you're referring to there are, but it seems "that date" is probably upon us.
