From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:51:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806261250280.6102@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180626124316.GA15419@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 06:18:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> > ENVIRONMENT
> > GIT_CONFIG
> > Take the configuration from the given file instead of
> > .git/config. Using the "--global" option forces this to
> > ~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this to
> > $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
> >
> > is the phrase "forces this to" really what you want to use here?
> > maybe i misunderstand what this option does, doesn't it simply mean
> > that it will use a different (specified) file from the default,
> > depending on the context (local, global, system)?
> >
> > it just seems weird to say that the option "forces" the use of what
> > are clearly the default files. thoughts?
>
> I agree it's weird. I think it's trying to mean "behaves as if it
> was set to", but with the additional notion that the command-line
> argument would take precedence over the environment (which is our
> usual rule). But then we should just say those things explicitly.
>
> Just looking at mentions of GIT_CONFIG in that manpage and knowing
> the history, I think:
... snip ...
i'm just going to admit that i don't quite have the background to know
how to submit a patch to tidy things up based on Jeff's analysis, so
I'm going to leave this to someone higher up the food chain.
rday
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2018-06-26 10:18 curious about wording in "man git-config", ENVIRONMENT Robert P. J. Day
2018-06-26 12:43 ` Jeff King
2018-06-26 16:51 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2018-06-28 18:17 ` Jeff King
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