Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> There's no need to use the environment variable to direct the generation 
> of the config file in the C version of clone, and having it not defined 
> means that global and per-user configuration is available. This is 
> necessary for the fetching portion, and could be useful someday for the 
> init portion as well. It is unlikely that the user would want the 
> repository's configuration in some non-default location, but no less 
> likely than with any other git command besides "git config".
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>

Thanks, will queue together with the earlier [2/2] from Dscho.

Can we have updates to the testsuite as well?  We would probably have to
fudge $HOME and have some entries in $HOME/.gitconfig to simulate the
situation that triggered the original discussion.