From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)
Message-ID: <7vvd5ieu29.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101003235329.6f4d2572@jk.gs>

Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> writes:

> 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.