Re: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT
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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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- Jun 26, 2018, 16:51 UTC
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 06:18:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > ENVIRONMENT > > GIT_CONFIG > > Take the configuration from the given file instead of > > .git/config. Using the "--global" option forces this to > > ~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this to > > $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. > > > > is the phrase "forces this to" really what you want to use here? > > maybe i misunderstand what this option does, doesn't it simply mean > > that it will use a different (specified) file from the default, > > depending on the context (local, global, system)? > > > > it just seems weird to say that the option "forces" the use of what > > are clearly the default files. thoughts? > > I agree it's weird. I think it's trying to mean "behaves as if it > was set to", but with the additional notion that the command-line > argument would take precedence over the environment (which is our > usual rule). But then we should just say those things explicitly. > > Just looking at mentions of GIT_CONFIG in that manpage and knowing > the history, I think:
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i'm just going to admit that i don't quite have the background to know how to submit a patch to tidy things up based on Jeff's analysis, so I'm going to leave this to someone higher up the food chain.
rday
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