Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: allow customizing /etc/gitconfig location

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2016, 09:53 UTC
Message-ID: <f239b2eb-d122-9c4b-187b-fbd40a94bcf4@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160928233047.14313-2-gitster@pobox.com>

W dniu 29.09.2016 o 01:30, Junio C Hamano pisze:

> With a new environment variable GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG, the users can
> specify a file that is used instead of /etc/gitconfig to read (and
> write) the system-wide configuration.

Why it is named GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG (which is Unix-ism), and not GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM / GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM_PATH, that is something OS-neutral?

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Jakub Narębski

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