From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2021, #04; Thu, 15)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:04:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHj+xvav1I0UGAe0@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHj9mUzs+jlgNuVE@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:59:37PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 05:04:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > * ps/config-global-override (2021-04-13) 3 commits
> > (merged to 'next' on 2021-04-15 at 60a58d74ab)
> > + config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
> > + config: unify code paths to get global config paths
> > + config: rename `git_etc_config()`
> >
> > Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
> > system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
> > users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
> > (setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
> > setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
> > per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.
> >
> > Will merge to 'master'.
>
> Looks like this fails CI on the Windows VS build. I get:
>
> ++ env GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=does-not-exist GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM=/dev/null git config --global --list
> fatal: unable to access 'nul': Invalid argument
>
> from t1300.181. I thought we had some magic to make /dev/null work there
> (or maybe this _is_ the magic kicking in, since it is looking for the
> Windows-ish nul, but it is not working for some reason).
Ah, indeed. mingw_open() has:
if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
wcscpy(wfilename, L"nul");
which is clearly kicking in. But I have no idea why that might not work
here. We may need some assistance from Windows folks (cc'd).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 0:04 What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2021, #04; Thu, 15) Junio C Hamano
2021-04-16 2:59 ` Jeff King
2021-04-16 3:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-04-16 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-04-16 13:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-17 8:47 ` Jeff King
2021-04-17 13:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-18 16:55 ` Sergey Organov
2021-04-18 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
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