Merge branch 'ps/config-global-override'

Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
(setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.

* ps/config-global-override:
  t1300: fix unset of GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM leaking into subsequent tests
  config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
  config: unify code paths to get global config paths
  config: rename `git_etc_config()`

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index ba5c8e9..6dd241e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -670,6 +670,16 @@ for further details.
 	If this environment variable is set to `0`, git will not prompt
 	on the terminal (e.g., when asking for HTTP authentication).
 
+`GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL`::
+`GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`::
+	Take the configuration from the given files instead from global or
+	system-level configuration files. If `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM` is set, the
+	system config file defined at build time (usually `/etc/gitconfig`)
+	will not be read. Likewise, if `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` is set, neither
+	`$HOME/.gitconfig` nor `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` will be read. Can
+	be set to `/dev/null` to skip reading configuration files of the
+	respective level.
+
 `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`::
 	Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide
 	`$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` file.  This environment variable can