From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:10:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention environment variables GIT_CONFIG_NO(GLOBAL|SYSTEM)
Message-ID: <AANLkTimkDEff5dzO+PDR44vSq9JQ7Junj+Lwm30Fy1Vr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101003235329.6f4d2572@jk.gs>

Heya,

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 23:53, Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> wrote:
> 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.

Nice.

> +GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL::
> +       If set to true, do not use the global configuration file
> +       in ~/.gitconfig.
> +
> +GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM::
> +       If set to true, do not use the system-wide configuration file in
> +       /etc/gitconfig.
> +

If there are a '--no-global' and '--no-system', would it good to
mention those too? Something like: "If set to true, do not use the
system-wide configuration file in /etc/gitconfig, equivalent to
--no-global."?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier