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From: Matthew Persico <matthew.persico@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:54:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL20dLDQsti1qW7CrrEifPAhPp1snq9r5MgJL+mDwhLqhe6fyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Greetings.

Given the GIT_CONFIG environment variable can change 'git config'
behaves, it stands to reason that if GIT_CONFIG is defined, then ALL
git commands obey the value of GIT_CONFIG and use that file for config
info.

As a test, exported GIT_CONFIG=/tmp/ohm, copied ~/.gitconfig to
/tmp/ohm, moved ~/.gitconfig to ~/.gitconfig.hold and then tried git
st, where 'st' is an alias for status in my config file.

No dice. git st was unrecognized.

So, what's the point of GIT_CONFIG if only git-config uses it? Or did
I miss a step?

Thanks

-- 
Matthew O. Persico

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-01  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01  0:54 Matthew Persico [this message]
2016-04-01 11:19 ` GIT_CONFIG - what's the point? Christian Couder
2016-04-01 12:38 ` Jeff King
2016-04-01 14:31   ` Matthew Persico
2016-04-01 14:53     ` Jeff King
2016-04-01 17:28     ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-04-03 20:11       ` Matthew Persico

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