Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Il 15/12/2012 19:02, Junio C Hamano ha scritto: >> Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE, >>> GIT_NAMESPACE), it was not possible to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE >>> environment variable using the command line. >> >> Is this necessary? I'd prefer to see a better reason than "just >> because others have it". > > A long running program will be able to tell git to use an alternate > index file, without having to modify its own environment,... Hrm, isn't that the single-shot environment export syntax GIT_INDEX_FILE=foo git blah is for? Is there a real-world need for this? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html