From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:20:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: allow customizing /etc/gitconfig location
Message-ID: <xmqq7f9uhbc4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <f239b2eb-d122-9c4b-187b-fbd40a94bcf4@gmail.com>

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?