Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

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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 scripts. The same thing is generally better
accomplished by using git-config's "--file" parameter. We should
probably do a better job of making that clear in the documentation.

Or possibly deprecate it and eventually remove it entirely, as discussed
in:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/1195694/focus=257770

-Peff
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