Hi, this is the fourth version of my patch series to provide a way of overriding the global system configuration. Compared to v3, I only dropped the special-casing of `/dev/null`. As Junio rightly pointed out, the special-casing was incomplete and would have required more work to do the right thing for all cases. It can still be re-added at a later point if the usecase actually comes up. Patrick Patrick Steinhardt (3): config: rename `git_etc_config()` config: unify code paths to get global config paths config: allow overriding of global and system configuration Documentation/git-config.txt | 5 +++ Documentation/git.txt | 10 +++++ builtin/config.c | 6 +-- config.c | 41 +++++++++++++++------ config.h | 4 +- t/t1300-config.sh | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) Range-diff against v3: 1: 34bdbc27d6 = 1: 34bdbc27d6 config: rename `git_etc_config()` 2: 30f18679bd = 2: 30f18679bd config: unify code paths to get global config paths 3: af663640ae ! 3: d27efc0aa8 config: allow overriding of global and system configuration @@ Commit message - If unset, git continues to use the usual locations. - If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal - configuration files and instead take the path. - - - If set to `/dev/null`, we do not load either global- or - system-level configuration at all. + configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path + to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective + level. This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but @@ Documentation/git.txt: for further details. Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` file. This environment variable can - ## builtin/config.c ## -@@ builtin/config.c: int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) - char *user_config, *xdg_config; - - git_global_config(&user_config, &xdg_config); -- if (!user_config) -+ if (!user_config) { -+ if (getenv("GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL")) -+ die(_("GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null set")); -+ - /* - * It is unknown if HOME/.gitconfig exists, so - * we do not know if we should write to XDG -@@ builtin/config.c: int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) - * is set and points at a sane location. - */ - die(_("$HOME not set")); -+ } - - given_config_source.scope = CONFIG_SCOPE_GLOBAL; - - ## config.c ## @@ config.c: static int git_config_from_blob_ref(config_fn_t fn, char *git_system_config(void) { + char *system_config = xstrdup_or_null(getenv("GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM")); -+ if (system_config) { -+ if (!strcmp(system_config, "/dev/null")) -+ FREE_AND_NULL(system_config); ++ if (system_config) + return system_config; -+ } return system_path(ETC_GITCONFIG); } @@ config.c: static int git_config_from_blob_ref(config_fn_t fn, + char *user_config = xstrdup_or_null(getenv("GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL")); + char *xdg_config = NULL; + -+ if (user_config) { -+ if (!strcmp(user_config, "/dev/null")) -+ FREE_AND_NULL(user_config); -+ xdg_config = NULL; -+ } else { ++ if (!user_config) { + user_config = expand_user_path("~/.gitconfig", 0); + xdg_config = xdg_config_home("config"); + } -- 2.31.1