Manlio Perillo [off-list ref] writes:
Il 15/12/2012 19:02, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
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Manlio Perillo [off-list ref] writes:
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Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE,
GIT_NAMESPACE), it was not possible to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE
environment variable using the command line.
Is this necessary? I'd prefer to see a better reason than "just
because others have it".
A long running program will be able to tell git to use an alternate
index file, without having to modify its own environment,...
Hrm, isn't that the single-shot environment export syntax
GIT_INDEX_FILE=foo git blah
is for? Is there a real-world need for this?
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Il 15/12/2012 20:36, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
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Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE,
GIT_NAMESPACE), it was not possible to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE
environment variable using the command line.
Is this necessary? I'd prefer to see a better reason than "just
because others have it".
A long running program will be able to tell git to use an alternate
index file, without having to modify its own environment,...
Hrm, isn't that the single-shot environment export syntax
GIT_INDEX_FILE=foo git blah
is for? Is there a real-world need for this?
This works with a shell.
I'm using Python to write a custom git command.
Regards Manlio
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