Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2019-10-21

Re: [PATCH v2] t/README: the test repo does not have global or system configs

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2019-10-21 03:55:26

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] writes:
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 899e92a1c9..d4c792076d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	For writing options: write to global `~/.gitconfig` file
 	rather than the repository `.git/config`, write to
 	`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` file if this file exists and the
-	`~/.gitconfig` file doesn't.
+	`~/.gitconfig` file if it doesn't.
The original is not easy to read, but this is not that much of an
improvement.  I think what the original wants to say is

    - write to global `~/.gitconfig`

    - but write to the XDG place instead, if XDG one exists and
      ~/.gitconfig does not exist

How about touching a bit more, e.g.

	For writing, rather than writing the per-repository config
	file .git/config, write to the global config file, which is
	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config (if it exists), or
	$HOME/.gitconfig (otherwise).

to streamline the description?
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diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 60d5b77bcc..71946902d7 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -485,6 +485,13 @@ This test harness library does the following things:
    the --root option documented above, and a '.stress-<N>' suffix
    appended by the --stress option.
 
+ - The test framework sets GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1, thus ignoring any
+   --system config files. The --global config is redirected through
+   the environment variables. It unsets the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable
+   and sets HOME="$TRASH_DIRECTORY" for the tests.
+   A basic --local config is created in the test repository.
+   See linkgit:git-config[1].
Correct, even though I would say s/thus ignoring/in order to ignore/
instead ;-)

Thanks.
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