On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:14:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I did consider this before making the change. I don't plan to revert it;
> my reasons are:
I see your point. Still, could this possibly be made into a config
option? I can hack 50vcs-commit myself, but the setting of $HOME is
hard-coded into /usr/sbin/etckeeper, so I can't disable it cleanly.
> 1. Git could start writing to the user's home directory like bzr does at
> any point. It's best to have etckeeper treat the VCCs consistently.
Allowing the passing of $GIT_CONFIG could be an idea.
> > - $GIT_AUTHOR_NAME/EMAIL are defined unconditionally, making it
> > impossible to override them.
>
> I'm not really sure what the use case is for using them with etckeeper?
> They will be cleared across the sudo boundary anyway.
Not if I tell sudo otherwise.
In any case, if I could just avoid the overriding of $HOME without
having to divert etckeeper, I'd be a happy man.
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