From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:26:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config
Message-ID: <20070217232603.GB30839@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xewsd2j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:12:52PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +	prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&is_not_gitdir);
> +	prefix_length = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
> +	if (!is_not_gitdir) {
> +		git_config(git_apply_config);
> +		if (apply_default_whitespace)
> +			parse_whitespace_option(apply_default_whitespace);
> +	}
> +

If I read this correctly, running 'git apply' inside a git repository
will parse $GIT_DIR/config and $HOME/.gitconfig. However, outside of a
repository it will parse neither. It would make more sense to me to
still parse $HOME/.gitconfig to pick up the user's global options.

-Peff