Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:28 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote: >> Let me explain my scenario. I have an nfs mounted home directory. It >> is used across multiple machines. I use different colored xterms for >> each machine. But that means that the one set of colors in my one >> .gitconfig

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

ff.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:54:26PM -0400, Matthew Persico wrote: > >> So, what's the point of GIT_CONFIG if only git-config uses it? Or did >> I miss a step? > > There isn't a point to it. It's historical cruft that has been left in > to avoid breaking older

GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

Greetings. Given the GIT_CONFIG environment variable can change 'git config' behaves, it stands to reason that if GIT_CONFIG is defined, then ALL git commands obey the value of GIT_CONFIG and use that file for config info. As a test, exported GIT_CONFIG=/tmp/ohm, copied ~/.gitconfig to /tmp/ohm,