Hi, On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Okay for GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG. I do not remember off-hand who wanted it > > (Jakub? Pasky?), but it was in the context of gitweb. > > > > However, GIT_CONFIG is meant to parse arbitrary config files. > > ... > > But this "core.*" stuff is insane. Please no. > > Ok, Eric's example and yours made it clear that GIT_CONFIG is an > interface meant to reuse (or abuse) git-config to read some file > that is not at all related to git, and should never be used by > other plumbing. As long as that is clear (could we have that in > the documentation, by the way, please?), I have no problem with > that. I am no particularly good with documentation, but the good people who wanted this feature in the first place are. > I mildly disagree with you on having an ability to disable > /etc/gitconfig. I'm okay either way. But I thought /etc/gitconfig was not so much like /etc/skel/, but more like /etc/profile. > I've queued that insane "core.*" stuff in 'pu' and pushed out, > but I'll drop that topic altogether. But before doing that, > it's past my bedtime ;-). Hey, take it easy, now that Git "snog" is out! Ciao, Dscho - 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