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From: Timothee Cour <thelastmammoth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git makes it impossible to ignore or override global gitconfig, needs `GITCONFIGFILE`
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:48:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANri+Ey71QbWxNH+RhMfYuUSDEpYtv28ushUhK8Tt0xWUAU9iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

git makes it impossible to ignore global gitconfig. This is
essentially what's being asked here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23400449/how-to-make-git-temporarily-ignore-gitconfig

## proposal:
add an environment variable (like for tig and other programs), eg:
`GITCONFIGFILE=~/.gitconfig_temp git diff`
seems like an easy change that would make it easy for users to ignore
or override their gitconfig

## note:
I've asked here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/1ehWsItL8vE but got
0 response after 6 months

             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-19  5:48 Timothee Cour [this message]
2020-03-19  6:44 ` git makes it impossible to ignore or override global gitconfig, needs `GITCONFIGFILE` Eric Wong
2020-03-19 16:51   ` Jeff King
2020-03-20  2:28     ` Timothee Cour
2020-03-20  5:41       ` Jeff King

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