From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:25:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA environment variable
Message-ID: <20091219142559.GF25474@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091219020947.GB10687@spearce.org>

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:09:47PM -0800, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> What file does `git config --add` modify?  Should we be able to
> modify the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA file?

git config --add will still write .git/config (or $GIT_CONFIG) as
before. At the moment there is no way to modify a GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA file
using git-config.

> What order is GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA applied in relative to other files
> that git config would also have read?

The config file from GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA is the last one that is read.

Adding the above feature and documenting the later answer could be done
in a second version of such a patch, but as far as I see it's no good
doing so because then patch solves a non-exsiting problem. ;-)