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Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2008, 09:14 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> We could go back to setting HOME to something bogus, but then we have no
> way to suppress the reading of /etc/gitconfig (the only way to do so, I
> think, is to set GIT_CONFIG).
>
> So I think we are stuck adding in some environment magic to suppress the
> reading of ETC_GITCONFIG, and doing something like:
>
> unset GIT_CONFIG
> GIT_ETC_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.git/nonexistant
> GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.git/nonexistant
>
> Thoughts?

Instead how about "GIT_NO_ETC_CONFIG" when set _ignores_ /etc/gitconfig altogether?

Then you do not have to make excuses like "eh, you can do this more or less with local config but...".

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Message 5 of 8 in “Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files”
  1. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  2. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  3. 1/2 allow GIT_CONFIG_ETC to override compile-time settingJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  4. 2/2 fix config reading in testsJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2008
  6. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2008
  7. 1/2 allow suppressing of global and system configJeff King, Feb 6, 2008
  8. 2/2 fix config reading in testsJeff King, Feb 6, 2008

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