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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)

From
Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date
Oct 4, 2010, 06:31 UTC
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<20101004083106.74623cd5@jk.gs>
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--- Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Aren't they undocumented because the use case for them is pretty much
> limited to the test scripts and nowhere else?  I am not absolutely
> sure about GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL, but NOSYSTEM surely was started that
> way.

I don't know. I found them when someone on IRC was looking for a way to bypass an insteadOf setting in his ~/.gitconfig file, so I guess that there is an actual use case for some.

-Jan
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  1. Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)Jan Krüger, Oct 3, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2010
  4. Jan KrügerOct 4, 2010

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