Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

> Let me explain my scenario. I have an nfs mounted home directory. It
> is used across multiple machines. I use different colored xterms for
> each machine. But that means that the one set of colors in my one
> .gitconfig file don't work against all my screen backgrounds. I'm
> trying to find a way to tune the git colors per login. The ability to
> set colors in an environment variable (like most UNIX utils support)
> would be the easiest way to do this. Failing that, I was hoping that
> by setting GIT_CONFIG per login, I could tune the color schemes with
> different config files.
> 
> Since that is not how GIT_CONFIG is used, I have simply decided to
> squint where necessary, or open up a neutral colored xterm for the
> diff, regardless of machine.
> 
> Yes, I could probably do diffs in many other ways, but git diff at the
> command line is usually the most expedient.
> 
> Unless I wanted to define a GIT_CONFIG_OVER environment variable upon
> login, place inside it the appropriate -c<name>=<value> overrides for
> colors, and then define a bash function git as
> 
> git () {
>    $(which git) $GIT_CONFIG_OVER "$@"
>    return $?
> }
> 
> which seems silly.