From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.c: add --index-file command-line option. Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:02:38 -0800 Message-ID: <7vpq2btcqp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1355484219-7517-1-git-send-email-manlio.perillo@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Manlio Perillo X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 15 19:03:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tjw4i-0006Wy-HG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:03:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751514Ab2LOSCm (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:02:42 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:53479 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795Ab2LOSCl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:02:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B85A0E0; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:02:41 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=TvSSz2XSnHXsTV/cxRLpKnVdDzg=; b=h8F9bs1yA9KdBBCFsr2/ ki2pZoAlAFuKnVoFYFbAtqZawHcPIEG6usdig0YBZFJ+STpDoExUpTvutuhAcqwS UwnaUjILPBJdq89cP0EoNuZRzDdG/gwQuDXRSnn6DTJwfikj+8nYKb8NIR2qXgKq Hh8dY3JUsRbodkamKpl3MD8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=inwdBu2IrITDACbOGYe6+Js1IJS/+FR8rxg8eXIyx8FEPP tcRKkezqOln9N2U2ybmWSjk6Pfu+mndM769aQGoijp6kmhsaAeaZWGXMayT26B7J tnq+8F7uipl/BBTdoouksHTgSGI8aLsmlH+UU3/b9WU8KXMQ0RIERNYIdhKbE= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221F0A0DF; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:02:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 634B6A0DE; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:02:40 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9DD59B12-46E1-11E2-AE2C-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Manlio Perillo writes: > Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE, > GIT_NAMESPACE), it was not possible to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE > environment variable using the command line. Is this necessary? I'd prefer to see a better reason than "just because others have it".