Re: [PATCH 2/4] t13xx: do not assume system config is empty

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> "either" meaning "we do not need to add --local and we do not need
> >> GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM"?
> >
> > Yes. I didn't test it with your core.abbrev patch 4/4, but I _didn't_
> > have to touch their expected output after pointing them at a non-empty
> > etc-gitconfig file in the trash directory. Which implies to me they
> > don't care either way (which makes sense; they are asking for a specific
> > key which is supposed to be found in one of the other files).
> 
> There is a bit of problem here, though.
> 
>  * If we make t1300 point at its own system-wide config, it will be
>    in control of its contents, so "find this key" will find only it
>    wants to find (or we found a regression).
> 
>  * But then if it ever does something that depends on the default
>    value of core.abbrev (or whatever we'd tweak in response to the
>    next suggestion by Linus ;-), we cannot really allow it to do
>    so.  We'd want t/gitconfig-for-test to be the single place that
>    we can tweak these things, but we'll have to know t1300 uses its
>    own and need to make the same change there, too.