Timothee Cour <thelastmammoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > git makes it impossible to ignore global gitconfig. This is > essentially what's being asked here: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23400449/how-to-make-git-temporarily-ignore-gitconfig > > ## proposal: > add an environment variable (like for tig and other programs), eg: > `GITCONFIGFILE=~/.gitconfig_temp git diff` > seems like an easy change that would make it easy for users to ignore > or override their gitconfig You can use GIT_CONFIG for that, and there's also GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM. They're both documented in the git-config(5) manpage. > ## note: > I've asked here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/1ehWsItL8vE but got > 0 response after 6 months Oh well... I don't pay any attention to that list, and not too much to this one, either. I was just working on the archives and noticed this was the latest message on this list :>
