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Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 6, 2008, 09:04 UTC
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<20080206090453.GA6762@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20080206083817.GA19710@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:38:17AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> So I think we are stuck adding in some environment magic to suppress the
> reading of ETC_GITCONFIG, and doing something like:
> 
> unset GIT_CONFIG
> GIT_ETC_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.git/nonexistant
> GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.git/nonexistant

Actually, we don't need to suppress GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG in the same way; we just need to make sure it isn't set. But we do need to set HOME to avoid that lookup. Patch series will follow.

-Peff
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Message 2 of 8 in “Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files”
  1. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  2. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  3. 1/2 allow GIT_CONFIG_ETC to override compile-time settingJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  4. 2/2 fix config reading in testsJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2008
  6. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  7. 1/2 allow suppressing of global and system configJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  8. 2/2 fix config reading in testsJeff King, Feb 6, 2008

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