From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:18:26 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806260608270.6007@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
ENVIRONMENT
GIT_CONFIG
Take the configuration from the given file instead of
.git/config. Using the "--global" option forces this to
~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this to
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
is the phrase "forces this to" really what you want to use here?
maybe i misunderstand what this option does, doesn't it simply mean
that it will use a different (specified) file from the default,
depending on the context (local, global, system)?
it just seems weird to say that the option "forces" the use of what
are clearly the default files. thoughts?
rday
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next reply other threads:[~2018-06-26 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-26 10:18 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2018-06-26 12:43 ` curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT Jeff King
2018-06-26 16:51 ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-28 18:17 ` Jeff King
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