From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:14:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make tests independent of global config files
Message-ID: <7vodau1m6t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080206083817.GA19710@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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...".