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From: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:31:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004083106.74623cd5@jk.gs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvd5ieu29.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

--- Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Aren't they undocumented because the use case for them is pretty much
> limited to the test scripts and nowhere else?  I am not absolutely
> sure about GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL, but NOSYSTEM surely was started that
> way.

I don't know. I found them when someone on IRC was looking for a way to
bypass an insteadOf setting in his ~/.gitconfig file, so I guess that
there is an actual use case for some.

-Jan

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03 21:53 [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM) Jan Krüger
2010-10-03 23:10 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  6:31   ` Jan Krüger [this message]

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