From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:42:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
Message-ID: <20121014084244.GA7190@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20121014062218.GB13477@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> For example, servers may depend on /etc/gitconfig to enforce security
> policy (e.g., setting transfer.fsckObjects or receive.deny*). Perhaps
> our default should be safe, and people can use GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM to
> work around a broken machine.

Very good point.  How about these patches on top?

Jonathan Nieder (2):
  config doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
  config: exit on error accessing any config file

 Documentation/git-config.txt | 8 ++++++++
 config.c                     | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)