From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:07:38 GMT Subject: RE: [BUG] PREFIX environment variable ignored by git config --system Message-ID: <001501db72aa$fc812350$f58369f0$@nexbridge.com> In-Reply-To: On January 29, 2025 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > writes: > >> Those of us who have written documentation for much of our lives, >> really miss accuracy. There are companies where a wrong bit of >> documentation is considered as high severity defect. Regardless of that... > >The association with that "book" and those who hang around here is that we could >contribute corrections to them, as they are open source and we are friends, but >that is about it ;-). > >I am reasonably sure that they will appreciate a well researched pull request (and >"well reserached" does not mean "somebody says this is incorrect" but needs a bit >more than that). Well, we are all friends here 😉 Be that as it may, the following seems to work: $ GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM=/home/randall/etc/gitconfig git config --system --list fatal: unable to read config file '/home/randall/etc/gitconfig': No such file or directory This appears to do exactly what I am looking for. When I create that file, git picks up config values from that file.The question is, is this environment variable actually sanctioned or is it just coincidence? It does exactly what I am looking for.