From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995EEC433EF for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2021 23:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733EB611C4 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2021 23:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230011AbhKCXrb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2021 19:47:31 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:42187 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229561AbhKCXra (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2021 19:47:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1635983087; bh=pLZaTBMnSq72gUiQLUnegR04SzcswaFr9Y6M6PJjLLA=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=M4B4KbOcX9ukL/ZglcGkcvyKWZDS8JGAUsQwsZajMDjOvSfLK3FjpEFCjzCBGXo47 vHCVHsVHOpKEMqd9BagPvvPMW7irIdN5o++SCPB/5oI1U2rWLYfsLggclk4htmyCeh uI7Fr+TwC0sXeWUPYPXdJ3iPMvETvV8aLIeKKqK8= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Received: from [172.20.119.151] ([89.1.212.10]) by mail.gmx.net (mrgmx005 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MbzuH-1mBojg312d-00dYPf; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:44:47 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 00:44:46 +0100 (CET) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: Junio C Hamano cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Thomas_Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin: add git-default-branch command In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20211030140112.834650-1-thomas@t-8ch.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:3vUcCLCZ2+Ce+1Crn8JPjIJGFSrNhrAB4FMeYRmJteS1Nf8FhHD gz7TkGqBXaM7WY1z5ue8KoM7ez8XBnhQ+3uktPajoSSuqeOsdXarbid4UtiVE/du8kAtb/h Vwf2bbDHiyrWkOVACs+T4bwQymyDcePzY9GxML2Ea45XjMq3MVTydmViAp3utQ+QQXAsm4H SQJr7LLeo7vVh9vmD1zwQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:fO6fzFxRQs4=:Tx+doCYCShWK+Ve/hSLjqM bXX3d7bfcScJ/CYNRQSFN6WJZn6w5lrAQLUc03X6YaOjtoisDLqEMMTmim3v7g155Z+GehlMo No5N7j1CU26/kTocAC1WNrmH3mLkAmJTW2g5jPBVx0sZgqwvYqcffBLQv0T/XvJ6icybdIdm+ qG6jMOXfAoefYxyEWwtTI9NX8HxUHQtOrkfhs4sg/veNWU7fS3wVja08zHcdAxMfxcSKXUoqX x/gvgEA04OJbK3k8J8Fn51M6qRSiEf9cHFD8ciHd1+v+2UUWgPdUu8hdEM7BHqfZA3ELGklJ6 m+jsN5lLyMNSqM2umpMAC6HHQVkp28z1TCtMQKpTSrJLCB2kxl9qbrItMJ6ODD1EU58+80L+n RKTinGej8VtpGkIi9zgPRQVabzuzsgx0R47VC3u2HQZnL7Lmh+VwvRDW4xWD0A9h+ZkwxtIDc TJFB6WlljwIoMiHu6h/UiyY4UtaaUzjnvT8Ke786s9bqcchvfw2hkQCx6ZHInwiY4/iBqISI0 uw5TWPhxH+6DAtiJZZH0iQEgWzg1G4hgemIKrTRciMFrYdj4IXiqR87nCKMTNb01o78NqTA+Y 1olTxERJMYzmRyDhU02Brjj9bgyhEklSgtJMh/8IgxrdnCdP+9icZaBBiWF33t4201Y+mKgkm bzzK8hA6nowPfrU1aVyGEgMYrI5VhnQUB7m8SJFu6VSFOB+8FH3XE72p/bxzYLkCgffk5aKvY dXXlCTNfEW0sLTMysm0/7fzynHT9Nm53eB0CRL9TCFOXTxjE44gI7PVYuf62gyf1Ae/noW+Y+ a0j40C2PfFATAy68XnDXSLJontuPt9nThMKYEbDqWj43SbvUaIa1jqtTWpubJkH6g5d3xEyAL md0l0koQ2ocwrFOjJMfK0I2V8JOqU2yGWy9oqZAimS0L8gmCNN472QvKanUl2GsOHGDB+dGrh eUgvVUbcsk8WNdyqTpr1nBmCzF++n0DnY3z9SJN6fg3PZEu8Wb2+xs/4nK8ASbJWMCaHF8MqJ /IJdV6JGKQIvAQ8YKJlrlouH1uqHrJSsuJd2XnNkBLRtBV9hLp1a/Cysd4P/S4DyXcGNn/j2V GyCgluzzGIlo5I= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Junio, On Wed, 3 Nov 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > But we do have prior art in Git how to display similar information: `g= it > > var -l` will list e.g. `GIT_PAGER`, even if it is not configured > > explicitly. > > Nice. I was hoping that somebody would remember this one. I am glad that at least you remembered what I said ;-) > GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT and such that do not even exist as a variable is > part of "git var -l"; the name for the default initial branch falls > into the same category. Yep. Likewise, `GIT_PAGER` does not have to exist as an environment variable, and still would be listed in `git var -l`. And `GIT_EDITOR`. I know there are scripts out there looking at `git var` for such (possibly default) values. That's why `git var -l` is a pretty good place for this information. Maybe the commit message could grow a paragraph with this line of reasoning. Thomas, what do you think? Ciao, Dscho