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Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 30, 2008, 06:25 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Honestly, GIT_CONFIG is purely for scripts like git-svn that muck with
> files that are in the config format to have a way to make sure that they
> access the file they intend to, and being able to use GIT_CONFIG to keep
> git programs from reading from $HOME/.gitconfig is primarily for giving
> our test scripts repeatable environment, nothing more.
>
> I think ignoring end-user GIT_CONFIG like this patch does, instead of
> doing random nonsense, would be a good bugfix for "git clone".

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.

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Message 21 of 26 in “Using url.insteadOf in git-clone”
  1. Pieter de BieJun 27, 2008
  2. 1/2 clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfigJohannes Schindelin, Jun 27, 2008
  3. 2/2 clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configsJohannes Schindelin, Jun 27, 2008
  4. Daniel BarkalowJun 27, 2008
  5. Pieter de BieJun 29, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJun 29, 2008
  7. Daniel BarkalowJun 27, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  9. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 29, 2008
  12. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinJun 30, 2008
  14. Daniel BarkalowJun 30, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2008
  16. Daniel BarkalowJun 30, 2008
  17. Daniel BarkalowJun 30, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJun 30, 2008
  19. Daniel BarkalowJun 30, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2008
  22. Jeff KingJun 30, 2008
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2008
  24. Johannes SchindelinJun 30, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  26. Pieter de BieJun 29, 2008

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