Re: [PATCH] i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:00:31AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > but then you lose the default handling. I think if we added a new
> > option, it would either be:
> >
> >   # interpret a value directly; use default on empty, I guess?
> >   git config --default=false --type=bool --interpret-value "$GIT_WHATEVER_ENV"
> >
> > or
> >
> >   # less flexible, but the --default semantics are more obvious
> >   git config --default=false --type=bool --get-env GIT_WHATEVER_ENV
> 
> Yeah, my thinko.  The latter would be closer to what this patch
> wants to have, but obviously the former would be more flexible and
> useful in wider context.  Both have the "Huh?" factor---what they
> are doing has little to do with "config", but I did not think of a
> better kitchen-sink (and our default kitchen-sink "rev-parse" is
> even further than "config", I would think, for this one).

Heh, I thought through the exact sequence in your paragraph when writing
my other message. That's probably a good sign that we should probably
not pursue this further unless we see the use case come up again a few
more times (and if we do, then consider "config" the least-bad place to
do it).

-Peff