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Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:57:42 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Cc: Subject: Re: [BUG] PREFIX environment variable ignored by git config --system In-Reply-To: <001801db72af$20a35560$61ea0020$@nexbridge.com> (rsbecker@nexbridge.com's message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:37:17 -0500") References: <007f01db726b$ac911ce0$05b356a0$@nexbridge.com> <008201db726f$6e6990b0$4b3cb210$@nexbridge.com> <009c01db728d$164a60d0$42df2270$@nexbridge.com> <001201db72a8$72719480$5754bd80$@nexbridge.com> <001501db72aa$fc812350$f58369f0$@nexbridge.com> <001801db72af$20a35560$61ea0020$@nexbridge.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:57:41 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain writes: > On January 29, 2025 7:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> writes: >> >>> This appears to do exactly what I am looking for. When I create that >>> file, git picks up config values from that file.The question is, is >>> this environment variable actually sanctioned or is it just coincidence? > It does >>exactly what I am looking for. >> >>How about reading "git config --help"? > > Yup. It's there, thanks. So should I figure out how to sync the website with > this > or ignore it? It depends on how good a friend you are to them, right ;-)? https://github.com/progit/progit2/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20PREFIX seems to say that the issue has not been reported, and doing so might be a good first step. We'd probably want a bit of history digging to see if we ever supported "$PREFIX/etc/gitconfig" before opening that issue, though. How to phrase the issue would be different between "we used to but no longer support this since version X" and "we never supported such a variable". This is a #leftoverbit for those without a lot of coding skills but patience, being good at using "git blame", and a good notetaking skills to summarize findings, are needed. Another good thing to do is to match the environment variables and their descriptions we have in the output from "git help git" with that page. We may have acquired a few more of them since that page of the book was written 10 years ago, for example. This would be a good #leftoverbit for those without any coding experience but want to improve the documentation that exists in the overall ecosystem. Thanks.