Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes:
> So from my point of view we should treat the environment variables the
> same as we treat "init.defaultRefFormat" and "init.defaultObjectFormat".
> Those indicate defaults, but do not cause us to change the format of
> existing repostiories.
Hmph, as somebody who often does things like
$ GIT_EDITOR=: git do-something
$ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=foo GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=bar@baz git commit -a
I do not necessarily see the environment variables as replacement
for configured defaults. They are, at least to me, more like a
single-shot override of the configured defaults, so if we were to
complain and error out command line options (we do do so, don't we?),
I would expect the environment variable that gives a single-shot
setting to be treated the same way.
Thanks.
