Re: [PATCH] perf: do not look at ./config for configuration

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 06:58:38PM +0200, Jonathan Nieder escreveu:
> In addition to /etc/perfconfig and $HOME/.perfconfig, perf looks for
> configuration in the file ./config, imitating git which looks at
> $GIT_DIR/config.  If ./config is not a perf configuration file, it
> fails, or worse, treats it as a configuration file and changes
> behavior in some unexpected way.
> 
> "config" is not an unusual name for a file to be lying around and perf
> does not have a private directory dedicated for its own use, so let's
> just stop looking for configuration in the cwd.  Callers needing
> context-sensitive configuration can use the PERF_CONFIG environment
> variable.

Thanks, I'll apply this one.

- Arnaldo
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