Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
However, I was thinking that it might be handy to have this and some
other information available for helping with debugging. E.g., that we
could ask bug reporters for "git version --build-options" when we
suspect something related to their config.
Sure. I was wrong to phrase it as "I would have..."; either is fine
by me, and being able to ask "git version --build-options" is
probably a plus.