On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 02:01:36PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > If you want to control it from outside the test script, you'd need
> > something like:
> > 
> >   if test "$GIT_TEST_DIFFTOOL" = "builtin"
> 
> That is a bit magic. I first used "GIT_USE_BUILTIN_DIFFTOOL" and it did
> not work. My name is arguably more correct (see also Jakub's note about
> "naming is hard"), but yours works because there is a "TEST" substring in
> it.

Yes. You are free to add an exception to the env list in test-lib.sh,
but we usually use GIT_TEST_* to avoid having to do so.

-Peff

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