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Re: [PATCH] Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remote

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 26, 2008, 22:19 UTC
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<20080226221959.GB6098@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> For some reason, t5505-remote was setting GIT_CONFIG to .git/config
> and exporting it. The sole effect of this was to cause the tests to
> fail if "git clone" obeyed it (which it presumably should).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> ---
> Maybe test-lib used to set GIT_CONFIG to something that would interfere? 
> Or the default behavior was wrong?

test-lib used to set it to ".git/config" until recently, so this would have been a no-op. As to why it was ever in here, I have no idea.

-Peff
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