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author | Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> | 2021-04-19 14:31:16 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-04-19 14:16:59 -0700 |
commit | 4179b4897f2de28858acaebd6382c06c91532e98 (patch) | |
tree | d4483426da307a12e122474826dc238c04f5cee6 /Documentation/git-config.txt | |
parent | 1e06eb9b5dc9c663c2a60a2ca63e218b41a765e8 (diff) | |
download | git-4179b4897f2de28858acaebd6382c06c91532e98.tar.gz |
config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
In order to have git run in a fully controlled environment without any
misconfiguration, it may be desirable for users or scripts to override
global- and system-level configuration files. We already have a way of
doing this, which is to unset both HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment
variables and to set `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=true`. This is quite kludgy,
and unsetting the first two variables likely has an impact on other
executables spawned by such a script.
The obvious way to fix this would be to introduce `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`
as an equivalent to `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. But in the past, it has
turned out that this design is inflexible: we cannot test system-level
parsing of the git configuration in our test harness because there is no
way to change its location, so all tests run with `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`
set.
Instead of doing the same mistake with `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`, introduce
two new variables `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` and `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`:
- If unset, git continues to use the usual locations.
- If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal
configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path
to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective
level.
This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized
environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but
is more flexible and allows for more usecases than simply adding
`GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-config.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 4b4cc5c5e8..5cddadafd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ GIT_CONFIG:: Using the "--global" option forces this to ~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. +GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL:: +GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM:: + Take the configuration from the given files instead from global or + system-level configuration. See linkgit:git[1] for details. + GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM:: Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file. See linkgit:git[1] for details. |