From: Sirio Balmelli <sirio.bm@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 17:58:05 GMT
Subject: Re: git appears to ignore GIT_CONFIG environment variable
Message-ID: <E62F9E2A-70F1-47A4-B30C-2C767102CDCC@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpnvoqirp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Thank you very much, I appreciate the answer :)

best,

Sirio

> On Nov 2, 2018, at 04:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Sirio Balmelli <sirio.bm@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> It appears that git ignores the GIT_CONFIG environment variable,
>> while git-config *does* consider it.
> 
> Yup, that is exactly how it is designed and documented.  These
> dasys, with "git config" taking "--file" to work on any arbitrary
> filename, you do not necessarily need GIT_CONFIG enviornment.
>