From: Moe <moe@signalbeam.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:06:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA environment variable
Message-ID: <4B2C4320.6060007@signalbeam.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091219020947.GB10687@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
>> This is like GIT_CONFIG but it is not read instead of .git/config, but
>> in addtition to it.
> 
> What file does `git config --add` modify?  Should we be able to
> modify the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA file?

>From my use-case corner: Yes, this would basically be used
to divert ~/.gitconfig and should behave in all the same ways.

> What order is GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA applied in relative to other files
> that git config would also have read?

This is up to Miklos to answer but again from my use-case angle it would
make the most sense to read the usual config files first
and GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA last - that way the user config gets the
last word in terms of overriding global and repository defaults.

And btw, thanks for the fast action Miklos!


Kind regards,
Moe