From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:04:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files
Message-ID: <20080206090453.GA6762@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080206083817.GA19710@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:38:17AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> 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