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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA environment variable
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:09:47 -0800
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> This is like GIT_CONFIG but it is not read instead of .git/config, but
> in addtition to it.

What file does `git config --add` modify?  Should we be able to
modify the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA file?

What order is GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA applied in relative to other files
that git config would also have read?

-- 
Shawn.