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Re: CRLF behavior

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 21, 2010, 21:52 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com> wrote:
>>> > Running git config --list shows nothing that would suggest any such
>>> setting.
>>>
>>> Try 'git config --global --list'
>>
>> I thought that --list tells me the sum result of all the settings in force; i.e. the final result that should be used here and now.
>
> Sadly not.

It take it back: it does do this. But if $HOME isn't set, apparently it silently fails to read $HOME/.gitconfig and uses a different set of options. Just confirmed this myself, and it's true. This probably should be considered a serious bug.

Avery
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  1. John DlugoszJul 21, 2010
  2. Avery PennarunJul 21, 2010
  3. John DlugoszJul 21, 2010
  4. Avery PennarunJul 21, 2010
  5. Avery PennarunJul 21, 2010
  6. John DlugoszJul 21, 2010
  7. John DlugoszJul 21, 2010
  8. Finn Arne GangstadJul 26, 2010
  9. John DlugoszJul 26, 2010

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