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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Configuration overrides via environment variable
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:08:10 +1100
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Hi,

I'm using Git in some scripts, and wanted to get its colorised output
even when it is not going to a tty. I don't want to permanently change
~/.gitconfig or the per-repo config; I just want to set color.status
(and perhaps others) to "always" for a one-off run. I suppose I could
munge the config files, storing the previous value and restoring it
later, but that's messy.

Ideally, an environment variable like GIT_EXTRA_CONFIG or something
would be nice, so I could just do:

GIT_EXTRA_CONFIG="color.status=always" git status | ...

Thoughts? Does this already exist, and I've overlooked it?


Dave.