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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 29, 2016, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqmviqk3b5.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7f9uhbc4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Isn't "environment variable" something that came from POSIX world?

I don't know who invented the concept, but environment variables have been there in the windows world since it exists I think (it existed in MS-DOS).

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