Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-03 Thread Matthew Persico
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:28 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote: >> Let me explain my scenario. I have an nfs mounted home directory. It >> is used across multiple machines. I use different colored xterms for >> each machine. But that means that the one set of colors in my one >> .gitconfig

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-01 Thread SZEDER Gábor
> Let me explain my scenario. I have an nfs mounted home directory. It > is used across multiple machines. I use different colored xterms for > each machine. But that means that the one set of colors in my one > .gitconfig file don't work against all my screen backgrounds. I'm > trying to find a

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-01 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:31:12AM -0400, Matthew Persico wrote: > Let me explain my scenario. I have an nfs mounted home directory. It > is used across multiple machines. I use different colored xterms for > each machine. But that means that the one set of colors in my one > .gitconfig file

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-01 Thread Matthew Persico
ff.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:54:26PM -0400, Matthew Persico wrote: > >> So, what's the point of GIT_CONFIG if only git-config uses it? Or did >> I miss a step? > > There isn't a point to it. It's historical cruft that has been left in > to avoid breaking older

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-01 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:54:26PM -0400, Matthew Persico wrote: > So, what's the point of GIT_CONFIG if only git-config uses it? Or did > I miss a step? There isn't a point to it. It's historical cruft that has been left in to avoid breaking older scripts. The same thing is generally

Re: GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-04-01 Thread Christian Couder
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Matthew Persico wrote: > Greetings. > > Given the GIT_CONFIG environment variable can change 'git config' > behaves, it stands to reason that if GIT_CONFIG is defined, then ALL > git commands obey the value of GIT_CONFIG and use that file

GIT_CONFIG - what's the point?

2016-03-31 Thread Matthew Persico
, moved ~/.gitconfig to ~/.gitconfig.hold and then tried git st, where 'st' is an alias for status in my config file. No dice. git st was unrecognized. So, what's the point of GIT_CONFIG if only git-config uses it? Or did I miss a step? Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico -- To unsubscribe from