Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The only excuse I remember seeing in the thread was that "make has '-C' > option, so let's have it, because it is similar", which does not justfiy > addition of that option to git at all to me. Just after having said that "make has it, so let's have it ourselves, too" is a non-excuse to any feature bloat, one thing I could accept a patch to imitate what "make" does, especially if we are going to actually clean up the startup sequence like we have discussed sometime ago to fix breakage around --work-tree, is to have VAR=VAL (e.g. "make CFLAGS=-O2") on the command line. We could use that syntax to allow configuration variables to be overridden, like so: $ git core.whitespace=cr-at-eol log -p master..next I wouldn't however suggest allowing the syntax to set environment variables, like: $ git GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="A U Thor" commit as this is something your shell lets you do easily, i.e: $ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="A U Thor" git commit But overriding some configuration variables for a single command invocation is not something you can do without actually editing the configuration file for some variables, so the former would be justified. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
