Re: Configuration overrides via environment variable

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Jan 28, 2008, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20080128205837.GB5788@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20801271708k124dc9d7n942b3c95299cb7fb@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:08:10 +1100, David Symonds wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Git in some scripts, and wanted to get its colorised output
> even when it is not going to a tty. I don't want to permanently change
> ~/.gitconfig or the per-repo config; I just want to set color.status
> (and perhaps others) to "always" for a one-off run. I suppose I could
> munge the config files, storing the previous value and restoring it
> later, but that's messy.
> 
> Ideally, an environment variable like GIT_EXTRA_CONFIG or something
> would be nice, so I could just do:
> 
> GIT_EXTRA_CONFIG="color.status=always" git status | ...
> 
> Thoughts? Does this already exist, and I've overlooked it?

Quickly looking at the git-config manpage, there does not seem to be a way to provide alternate config file via GIT_CONFIG and/or GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL variables. I don't know how good match for your problem that would be.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>