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[RFC PATCH v1] t/README: the test repo does not have global or system configs

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
Oct 16, 2019, 12:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20191016124515.1807-1-philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---

While tring to get to grips with some Git-for-Windows config settings for testing >4GiB files, I couldn't find any note in the readme about the test system config file sources.

Is this the right place for the information, is it complete enough, and is the default config template special?

 t/README | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 60d5b77bcc..3daa1fa182 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ This test harness library does the following things:
    the --root option documented above, and a '.stress-<N>' suffix
    appended by the --stress option.
 
+ - The --global and --system config files are ignored, and
+   a basic --local config is created in the tst repository.
+
  - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to
    use.  These functions are designed to make all scripts behave
    consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v),
-- 
2.23.0.windows.1.21.g947f504ebe8.dirty
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