From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:16:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remote Message-ID: <7vk5kqx18u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080226221959.GB6098@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > >> For some reason, t5505-remote was setting GIT_CONFIG to .git/config >> and exporting it. The sole effect of this was to cause the tests to >> fail if "git clone" obeyed it (which it presumably should). >> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow >> --- >> Maybe test-lib used to set GIT_CONFIG to something that would interfere? >> Or the default behavior was wrong? > > test-lib used to set it to ".git/config" until recently, so this would > have been a no-op. As to why it was ever in here, I have no idea. Right.