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Re: [QGIT PATCH] Add safeguards to Git::userInfo()

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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 18:28 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org> wrote:
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> So I guess this was set by msysgit at installation time. But I see this
> variable only at the console (after typing 'set'), I don't see it in the
> user environment variable nor in the system one. So I guess the fix would be
> for msysgit to create this entry?
>

Browsing git-config docs I would think that this variable is needed so that git-config knows where to look for the git global configs file that is under user $HOME directory, see the [FILES] section in git config docs.

Thanks Marco

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