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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "git -c web.browser=w3m help -w help" still kicks firefox
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Jeff King wrote:

> Which does bring up one interesting boundary. If I run:
> 
>   git -c receive.denyDeletes=false git push
> 
> what should happen? Obviously with cross-server communication the
> environment won't get passed. I am inclined to say that even for local
> cases, receive-pack should clear the string.

Sticky.  I agree with you that that would follow the principle of
least surprise.

On the other hand if I use

	git push --receive-pack='git -c receive.denyDeletes=false receive-pack'

then I would expect it to work.  I don't think this is a security
problem because I already could have set the remote $GIT_CONFIG just
as easily.