Re: [PATCH] Allow passing of configuration parameters in the command line

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

The values passed this way will override whatever is defined
in the config files.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <redacted>
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Someone wanted to have this once. I accidentally remembered
that when I wanted to temporarily set some config parameter
(format.suffix?). From looking at code it seemed simple enough,
so I did it.

How does this interact with core.worktree and the setup sequence in
general?

By "setup sequence", I mean something I tried to extract from Nguyen here:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/141962/focus=142001
 
During the process of finding the repository (.git/ or project.git/), we
would open its config to check the repository format version, that that
would be the earliest point we might decide where the work tree is (or if
we have work tree at all).  Where should this new mechanism hook into the
sequence to give users an expected behaviour (what's expected in the first
place)?