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From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Vasco Almeida" <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>,
	"Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:24:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5535030-65c1-613c-e4ea-d4379b243b87@ramsayjones.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181025010905.GA4458@sigill.intra.peff.net>



On 25/10/2018 02:09, Jeff King wrote:
> 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).

I was thinking:

  $ git var -e GIT_WHATEVER_ENV

[-e for environment].

... but that is really no different than git-config. ;-)

ATB,
Ramsay Jones




  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-25  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22 15:36 [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-22 20:22 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 1/8] test-lib.sh: preserve GIT_GETTEXT_POISON from the environment SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 2/8] gettext: don't poison if GIT_GETTEXT_POISON is set but empty SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:38     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 3/8] lib-rebase: loosen GETTEXT_POISON check in fake editor SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 4/8] gettext: #ifdef away GETTEXT POISON-related code from _() and Q_() SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 5/8] gettext: put "# GETTEXT POISON #" string literal into a macro SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 6/8] gettext: use an enum for the mode of GETTEXT POISONing SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 7/8] gettext: introduce GIT_GETTEXT_POISON=scrambled SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-23 14:44     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 8/8] travis-ci: run GETTEXT POISON build job in scrambled mode, too SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-23 14:37   ` [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Duy Nguyen
2018-10-27 10:11   ` Jakub Narebski
2018-10-22 20:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-22 21:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 21:46   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 23:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-23 21:01     ` [PATCH] i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24  5:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-24  7:44         ` Jeff King
2018-10-25  1:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-25  1:09             ` Jeff King
2018-10-25  1:24               ` Ramsay Jones [this message]
2018-10-25 21:23                 ` Jeff King
2018-10-26 19:20                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-27  6:59                     ` Jeff King
2018-10-27 10:42                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24 11:47         ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-01 19:31           ` [PATCH v3] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-02  3:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-02 16:37             ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-08 20:26               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 20:51                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-08  3:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-08 19:12               ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Makefile: ease dynamic-gettext-poison transition Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-23  9:30   ` [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-23 10:17     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-23 11:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-23 15:00       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-23 16:45         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24 14:41           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-24 17:54             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-25  3:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-25  6:20               ` Jeff King
2018-10-27  6:55                 ` Junio C Hamano

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