On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > If a curious user has the environment variable set to something > other than the file GIT_INDEX_FILE points at, almost everything > will break. This should instead be a command line parameter to > tell these plumbing commands to write the result in the named > file, to prevent stupid mistakes. I agree, that sounds sane. In general, we should probably support command-line parameters for most of those things, rather than force the use of environment parameters (the way we already do with "--author", for example). Linus - 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