Use git automatically if existing password-store uses it

[innir]

I have an existing ~/.password-store.
It has git enabled.
It is read and written to by pass(1).
It is read by applications using python3-pypass.

I installed qtpass, added a test password, and changed it two or three times.
I was very surprised to see that no git commit logs appeared.

It seems that by default, qtpass has

Configuration > Settings
[ ] Use git              (off by default)

Configuration > Programs
(X) Native git/gpg       (on by default)
( ) Use pass             (off by default)

If the user has no existing .password-store, this is a reasonable default.
However, if .password-store is ALREADY using git, qtpass SHOULD use git by default.

(Copied from a Debian bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995944)

[annejan]

Auto-detecting git usage in an existing password-store is a reasonable feature request. However, this would require analyzing the .password-store directory structure at startup which could be slow for large stores. Closing as not planned - users can manually enable git in Settings > Configuration.

[trentbuck]

this would require analyzing the .password-store directory structure at startup which could be slow for large stores

Er... surely it's just stat(~/.password-store/.git) -- if it exists, Configuration/Settings/Use git defaults to true.
Why would you need to walk/analyse any other part of the ~/.password-store tree?
And you only even do that when qtpass is first used (i.e. stat(~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf) fails).

Are you concerned that someone might have only a subtree under git, i.e. no ~/.password-store/.git but ~/.password-storage/A/B/C/D/.git ?