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[PATCH] Get rid of the last remnants of GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 14, 2008, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0812142310210.25197@racer>

In dc871831(Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs), GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL was rested in peace, in favor of not reading /etc/gitconfig and $HOME/.gitconfig at all when GIT_CONFIG is set.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 config.c             |    5 +----
 git-svn.perl         |    3 +--
 t/t5400-send-pack.sh |    2 +-
 t/test-lib.sh        |    1 -
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 8bd6106..8ff2b4b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -640,10 +640,7 @@ int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data)
 	char *repo_config = NULL;
 	const char *home = NULL;
 
-	/* $GIT_CONFIG makes git read _only_ the given config file,
-	 * $GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL will make it process it in addition to the
-	 * global config file, the same way it would the per-repository
-	 * config file otherwise. */
+	/* Setting $GIT_CONFIG makes git read _only_ the given config file. */
 	if (config_exclusive_filename)
 		return git_config_from_file(fn, config_exclusive_filename, data);
 	if (git_config_system() && !access(git_etc_gitconfig(), R_OK))
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 914c707..efda5c1 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -5007,8 +5007,7 @@ sub minimize_connections {
 		}
 	}
 	if (@emptied) {
-		my $file = $ENV{GIT_CONFIG} || $ENV{GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL} ||
-		           "$ENV{GIT_DIR}/config";
+		my $file = $ENV{GIT_CONFIG} || "$ENV{GIT_DIR}/config";
 		print STDERR <<EOF;
 The following [svn-remote] sections in your config file ($file) are empty
 and can be safely removed:
diff --git a/t/t5400-send-pack.sh b/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
index da69f08..b21317d 100755
--- a/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
+++ b/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 	! test -f victim/.git/refs/heads/extra
 '
 
-unset GIT_CONFIG GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL
+unset GIT_CONFIG
 HOME=`pwd`/no-such-directory
 export HOME ;# this way we force the victim/.git/config to be used.
 
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 8936173..22ed448 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -471,7 +471,6 @@ PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH=$(pwd)/..
 GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=$(pwd)/../templates/blt
 unset GIT_CONFIG
-unset GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL
 GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1
 GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=1
 export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL
-- 
1.6.0.4.1189.g8876f
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