Re: [PATCH] Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2008, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0806301247110.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vskuv1hj1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Hmm, I actually think this is a good thing to do in the sense that it
> vastly simplifies the user experience ;-).  Two less things to explain.
> 
> Care to write up a snippet for 1.6.0 release notes, as this is quite a
> large user visible backward incompatible change, even though it would be
> an improvement?

Sure:

* GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but 
  actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". 
  GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and not 
  different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.

	-Daniel
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