Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > I am not quite sure how $GIT_CONFIG and $GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL were
> > meant to be used.  Are there any *real* users?  With lack of
> 
> Addendum.
> 
> Judging from the way builtin-config.c::get_value() uses it, I
> think whoever invented $GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL as a parallel to
> $GIT_INDEX_FILE and $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, in other words, what
> usually appear under $GIT_DIR can be placed somewhere completely
> different.  So I think the above "hack" I described still honors
> its intended use.
> 
> I am still not sure what good GIT_CONFIG would be to completely
> override everything else, though.