From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:01:27 GMT
Subject: Re: "git -c web.browser=w3m help -w help" still kicks firefox
Message-ID: <20100824050127.GC20037@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20100823203304.GB4458@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> Which does bring up one interesting boundary. If I run:
> 
>   git -c receive.denyDeletes=false git push
> 
> what should happen? Obviously with cross-server communication the
> environment won't get passed. I am inclined to say that even for local
> cases, receive-pack should clear the string.

Sticky.  I agree with you that that would follow the principle of
least surprise.

On the other hand if I use

	git push --receive-pack='git -c receive.denyDeletes=false receive-pack'

then I would expect it to work.  I don't think this is a security
problem because I already could have set the remote $GIT_CONFIG just
as easily.