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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2010, 23:27 UTC
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Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> writes:
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> The environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL and GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
> which have the opposite effect of the --global and --system switches to
> git-config are completely undocumented. This mentions them in the
> 'files' and 'environment' sections of the manpage for git-config where
> GIT_CONFIG is already mentioned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>

Aren't they undocumented because the use case for them is pretty much limited to the test scripts and nowhere else? I am not absolutely sure about GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL, but NOSYSTEM surely was started that way.

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  1. Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)Jan Krüger, Oct 3, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2010
  4. Jan KrügerOct 4, 2010

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