There are (really!) systems where using environment variables is very cumbersome (yes, Windows, it has problems unsetting them). Besides this form is shorter. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen --- Documentation/git-config.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++++------------- builtin-config.c | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)