# Re: \[PATCH 1/4\] config: allow customizing /etc/gitconfig location

- From: Matthieu Moy \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-09-29 17:45:52 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/09/7697012
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/09/7697012/t.md

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Junio C Hamano [ref] writes:

> Jakub Narębski [ref] writes:
>
>> W dniu 29.09.2016 o 01:30, Junio C Hamano pisze:
>>> With a new environment variable GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG, the users can
>>> specify a file that is used instead of /etc/gitconfig to read (and
>>> write) the system-wide configuration.
>>
>> Why it is named GIT_ETC_GITCONFIG (which is Unix-ism), and not
>> GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM / GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM_PATH, that is something
>> OS-neutral?
>
> Isn't "environment variable" something that came from POSIX world?

I don't know who invented the concept, but environment variables have
been there in the windows world since it exists I think (it existed in
MS-DOS).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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