Re: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 28, 2018, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20180628181751.GA3693@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806261250280.6102@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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> > I agree it's weird. I think it's trying to mean "behaves as if it
> > was set to", but with the additional notion that the command-line
> > argument would take precedence over the environment (which is our
> > usual rule). But then we should just say those things explicitly.
> >
> > Just looking at mentions of GIT_CONFIG in that manpage and knowing
> > the history, I think:
> 
>   ... snip ...
> 
> i'm just going to admit that i don't quite have the background to know
> how to submit a patch to tidy things up based on Jeff's analysis, so
> I'm going to leave this to someone higher up the food chain.

There's some related discussion going on in:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20180627045637.13818-1-tmz@pobox.com/

I think it makes sense to wait for that to settle and then I may try to build on top.

-Peff