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Re: [PATCH] Use '-f' option to point to the .gitmodules file

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Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@gmail.com>
Date
May 20, 2008, 03:12 UTC
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Thanks for accepting the patch :).
Best regards,

Imran On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, imyousuf@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> From: Imran M Yousuf <imyousuf@smartitengineering.com>
>>
>> 'git config' has a '-f' option that takes the file to parse.
>> Using it rather than the environment variable seems more logical
>> and simplified.
>
> Definitely looks more readable.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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Imran M Yousuf
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