Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
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Of course, that would have downsides as well. Now git-clone tests cannot
be sanely written without setting $HOME to somewhere stable; otherwise
they can be randomly affected by buggy $HOME/.gitconfig files the end user
may have.
I thought we went through all of this before, and it led to 8bfa6bd6.
The test scripts set GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM and GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL to
achieve the same suppression effect.
Ah, thanks. Actually I was scratching my head trying to figure out why it
does not break after I wrote the above ;-)