Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
... I was thinking of
just creating a new namespace, like:
git var exec-path
git var author-ident
and deprecating the 4 existing GIT_* variables.
I'm fine with that. As I wrote in my response to MMoy, I forgot
about other kinds of options the "git" potty takes, and "git var
name-without-needless-double-dashes" is a perfectly fine way to
consolidate the querying of computed values in a single place.
Thanks.