Re: [PATCH] introduce git root

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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Christian raised the issue of cluttering the "git --option"
namespace,
and I do agree that's a potential issue. 

I am not sure if that is an issue at all. You will need the same
number of options to cover all the necessary "computables" somewhere
anyway.

"git --show-this-or-that-computable" is not more or not less
cluttering compared to "git var --show-this-or-that-computable".

I disagree.

Right now, a user reading "man git" sees --version, --help, -C,
--exec-path, --html-path, --man-path, ... at a flat list (it's actually
the first thing he can read from the man page).

Ahh, OK, you are worried about these "--give-me-computed-values"
mixed with other kinds of options.  I didn't consider that part of
the equation.

OK, "git var --exec-path" (and --friends), that is.