Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> W dniu 29.09.2016 o 01:30, Junio C Hamano pisze: >>> With a new environment variable GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG, the users can >>> specify a file that is used instead of /etc/gitconfig to read (and >>> write) the system-wide configuration. >> >> Why it is named GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG (which is Unix-ism), and not >> GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM / GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM_PATH, that is something >> OS-neutral? > > Isn't "environment variable" something that came from POSIX world? I don't know who invented the concept, but environment variables have been there in the windows world since it exists I think (it existed in MS-DOS). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/