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    trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2* · e4b75d6a
    Gábor Szeder authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the
    GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly.
    
    Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use
    abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR,
    GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the
    abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for.  But what does TR stand for?
    Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation,
    transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree,
    trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?!
    
    The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is
    supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility.  It's
    reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables
    follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are
    called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'.
    
    All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the
    'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'.
    
    OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three
    characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables.
    
    So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*,
    before they make their way into a stable release.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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