From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:31:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)
Message-ID: <20101004083106.74623cd5@jk.gs>
In-Reply-To: <7vvd5ieu29.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

--- 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