From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from secure.elehost.com (secure.elehost.com [185.209.179.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 031E2A55 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738195669; cv=none; b=MhP65Aj6qtH9dYSnkk5ecmd5R62K/dg1TX1p6zDqNhT9VvJjq/SZguUeko/KId1i5PuZHyk40oKJBCdKB27rxg4KbqpOCYsT6BEoiYPOU1jGCByRhk+wm7tKhfLwYYA262FLcGzB47ghFJqPyGUqov5yxn71SiLvER6+JU23z2w= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1738195669; c=relaxed/simple; bh=rZDQku/H4NnQFlVcRH/GmRiPPJUt6IzpUsxolfce9tI=; h=From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=KLT9JTTDB2i8W5Z8zQzXnR3MW2BJ6qStXyhk0RxAEidQkrlx4daI1by2p50xNggX93lphDC2K3Dg8dlapPPiG9973W2gNeX6xKqC/9PmftS4aWb+kXoW8cpyzixIkXpv8nEaa/QP9qWgo87VGs6rrghuwAwLsoZ2MGjopshcHNU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at secure.elehost.com Received: from Mazikeen (pool-99-228-67-183.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.228.67.183]) (authenticated bits=0) by secure.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22ubuntu3) with ESMTPSA id 50U07hkK2040047 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:07:43 GMT Reply-To: From: To: "'Junio C Hamano'" Cc: References: <007f01db726b$ac911ce0$05b356a0$@nexbridge.com> <008201db726f$6e6990b0$4b3cb210$@nexbridge.com> <009c01db728d$164a60d0$42df2270$@nexbridge.com> <001201db72a8$72719480$5754bd80$@nexbridge.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [BUG] PREFIX environment variable ignored by git config --system Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:07:38 -0500 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <001501db72aa$fc812350$f58369f0$@nexbridge.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQN9fsp86lG5K0M4uVvG8mjsU9to7QHrUQSBAdADBhMChc+5BwBRHwqvAunZ6BQCaak4ygJoX8Lsr3fmXAA= Content-Language: en-ca X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250129-6, 1/29/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On January 29, 2025 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > writes: > >> Those of us who have written documentation for much of our lives, >> really miss accuracy. There are companies where a wrong bit of >> documentation is considered as high severity defect. Regardless of = that... > >The association with that "book" and those who hang around here is that = we could >contribute corrections to them, as they are open source and we are = friends, but >that is about it ;-). > >I am reasonably sure that they will appreciate a well researched pull = request (and >"well reserached" does not mean "somebody says this is incorrect" but = needs a bit >more than that). Well, we are all friends here =F0=9F=98=89=20 Be that as it may, the following seems to work: $ GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM=3D/home/randall/etc/gitconfig git config --system = --list fatal: unable to read config file '/home/randall/etc/gitconfig': No such = file or directory This appears to do exactly what I am looking for. When I create that = file, git picks up config values from that file.The question is, is this environment = variable actually sanctioned or is it just coincidence? It does exactly what I am looking = for.