From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:17:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628181751.GA3693@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806261250280.6102@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > I agree it's weird. I think it's trying to mean "behaves as if it
> > was set to", but with the additional notion that the command-line
> > argument would take precedence over the environment (which is our
> > usual rule). But then we should just say those things explicitly.
> >
> > Just looking at mentions of GIT_CONFIG in that manpage and knowing
> > the history, I think:
>
> ... snip ...
>
> i'm just going to admit that i don't quite have the background to know
> how to submit a patch to tidy things up based on Jeff's analysis, so
> I'm going to leave this to someone higher up the food chain.
There's some related discussion going on in:
https://public-inbox.org/git/20180627045637.13818-1-tmz@pobox.com/
I think it makes sense to wait for that to settle and then I may try to
build on top.
-Peff
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-26 10:18 curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-26 12:43 ` Jeff King
2018-06-26 16:51 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-28 18:17 ` Jeff King [this message]
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