From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:44:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig
Message-ID: <7vod5j2zi1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080630064031.GA30600@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> Of course, that would have downsides as well.  Now git-clone tests cannot
>> be sanely written without setting $HOME to somewhere stable; otherwise
>> they can be randomly affected by buggy $HOME/.gitconfig files the end user
>> may have.
>
> I thought we went through all of this before, and it led to 8bfa6bd6.
> The test scripts set GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM and GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL to
> achieve the same suppression effect.

Ah, thanks.  Actually I was scratching my head trying to figure out why it
does not break after I wrote the above ;-)