From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15821207EC for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934401AbcI2Rpu (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:45:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:55106 "EHLO mx1.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934123AbcI2Rps (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:45:48 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by mx1.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8THjXYI003559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:45:33 +0200 Received: from anie (anie.imag.fr [129.88.42.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8THjYfP014942; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:45:34 +0200 From: Matthieu Moy To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bski?= , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: allow customizing /etc/gitconfig location References: <20160928233047.14313-1-gitster@pobox.com> <20160928233047.14313-2-gitster@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:45:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:20:27 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (mx1.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:45:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: u8THjXYI003559 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1475775935.05333@q5MLCX9HkmuOLkBF0SqrGQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > Jakub Narębski 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). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/