On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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.
There's some related discussion going on in: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180627045637.13818-1-...@pobox.com/ I think it makes sense to wait for that to settle and then I may try to build on top. -Peff
