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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>,
	Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:40:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080630064031.GA30600@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vskuv30e6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Honestly, GIT_CONFIG is purely for scripts like git-svn that muck with
> > files that are in the config format to have a way to make sure that they
> > access the file they intend to, and being able to use GIT_CONFIG to keep
> > git programs from reading from $HOME/.gitconfig is primarily for giving
> > our test scripts repeatable environment, nothing more.
[...]
> Of course, that would have downsides as well.  Now git-clone tests cannot
> be sanely written without setting $HOME to somewhere stable; otherwise
> they can be randomly affected by buggy $HOME/.gitconfig files the end user
> may have.

I thought we went through all of this before, and it led to 8bfa6bd6.
The test scripts set GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM and GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL to
achieve the same suppression effect.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-30  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27  9:35 Using url.insteadOf in git-clone Pieter de Bie
2008-06-27 12:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 12:56   ` [PATCH 2/2] clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configs Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 16:08     ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-29 20:12     ` Pieter de Bie
2008-06-29 21:50       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 16:05   ` [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-27 22:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-29 18:31       ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-29 20:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-29 21:49         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-29 22:47           ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-30  0:41             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-30  1:54               ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-30  1:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30  2:21               ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-30  3:47               ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-30 11:57                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-30 16:47                   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-30  6:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30  6:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30  6:40               ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-06-30  6:44                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30 11:37             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 17:11 ` Using url.insteadOf in git-clone Junio C Hamano
2008-06-29 18:59   ` Pieter de Bie

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