From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: fix several access(NULL) calls
Message-ID: <vpqmx3011la.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vy5mn8v2k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> 	if (use_global_config) {
>                 if (is $HOME/.gitconfig usable?) {
> 			use it;

Yes, but when $HOME is unset, the question doesn't really make sense.
Maybe the file exists, but we can't know since the user broke his
configuration by unsetting $HOME. The intent was to avoid writing to the
XDG file unless it was very clear that the user wanted it, so in doubt,
dying seems the best option.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/