From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:52:38 GMT
Subject: Re: CRLF behavior
Message-ID: <AANLkTiktnUV8WWSFcsj461QiG6WNv_kKxNFdJ5MBtdoy@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinyTlrkALbfVqdqzr_O4ClN-JGS9zsYwH1Upe1v@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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