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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:25:05 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> I think ignoring end-user GIT_CONFIG like this patch does, instead of
> doing random nonsense, would be a good bugfix for "git clone".

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.