From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F73C1F516 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967727AbeF1SRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:17:55 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:58700 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S966275AbeF1SRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:17:54 -0400 Received: (qmail 23463 invoked by uid 109); 28 Jun 2018 18:17:53 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:17:53 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 23883 invoked by uid 111); 28 Jun 2018 18:18:13 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:18:13 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:17:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:17:51 -0400 From: Jeff King To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Git Mailing list Subject: Re: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT Message-ID: <20180628181751.GA3693@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20180626124316.GA15419@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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