environment.c: remove test-specific "ignore_untracked..." variable

Instead of the global ignore_untracked_cache_config variable added in
dae6c322fa1 (test-dump-untracked-cache: don't modify the untracked
cache, 2016-01-27) we can make use of the new facility to set config
via environment variables added in d8d77153eaf (config: allow
specifying config entries via envvar pairs, 2021-01-12).

It's arguably a bit hacky to use setenv() and getenv() to pass
messages between the same program, but since the test helpers are not
the main intended audience of repo-settings.c I think it's better than
hardcoding the test-only special-case in prepare_repo_settings().

This uses the xsetenv() wrapper added in the preceding commit, if we
don't set these in the environment we'll fail in
t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh, but let's fail earlier anyway if that
were to happen.

This breaks any parent process that's potentially using the
GIT_CONFIG_* and GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS mechanism to pass one-shot
config setting down to a git subprocess, but in this case we don't
care about the general case of such potential parents. This process
neither spawns other "git" processes, nor is it interested in other
configuration. We might want to pick up other test modes here, but
those will be passed via GIT_TEST_* environment variables.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

4 files changed, 5 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index d23de69368..8e60fdd2a1 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1719,13 +1719,6 @@ int update_server_info(int);
 const char *get_log_output_encoding(void);
 const char *get_commit_output_encoding(void);
 
-/*
- * This is a hack for test programs like test-dump-untracked-cache to
- * ensure that they do not modify the untracked cache when reading it.
- * Do not use it otherwise!
- */
-extern int ignore_untracked_cache_config;
-
 int committer_ident_sufficiently_given(void);
 int author_ident_sufficiently_given(void);
 
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 7d8a949285..d73dd0c42f 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -96,13 +96,6 @@ int auto_comment_line_char;
 /* Parallel index stat data preload? */
 int core_preload_index = 1;
 
-/*
- * This is a hack for test programs like test-dump-untracked-cache to
- * ensure that they do not modify the untracked cache when reading it.
- * Do not use it otherwise!
- */
-int ignore_untracked_cache_config;
-
 /* This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config() */
 char *git_work_tree_cfg;
 
diff --git a/repo-settings.c b/repo-settings.c
index 0cfe8b787d..b0df8b93b8 100644
--- a/repo-settings.c
+++ b/repo-settings.c
@@ -70,12 +70,7 @@ void prepare_repo_settings(struct repository *r)
 	if (!repo_config_get_bool(r, "feature.experimental", &value) && value)
 		UPDATE_DEFAULT_BOOL(r->settings.fetch_negotiation_algorithm, FETCH_NEGOTIATION_SKIPPING);
 
-	/* Hack for test programs like test-dump-untracked-cache */
-	if (ignore_untracked_cache_config)
-		r->settings.core_untracked_cache = UNTRACKED_CACHE_KEEP;
-	else
-		UPDATE_DEFAULT_BOOL(r->settings.core_untracked_cache, UNTRACKED_CACHE_KEEP);
-
+	UPDATE_DEFAULT_BOOL(r->settings.core_untracked_cache, UNTRACKED_CACHE_KEEP);
 	UPDATE_DEFAULT_BOOL(r->settings.fetch_negotiation_algorithm, FETCH_NEGOTIATION_DEFAULT);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache.c b/t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache.c
index cf0f2c7228..99010614f6 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache.c
@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ int cmd__dump_untracked_cache(int ac, const char **av)
 	struct untracked_cache *uc;
 	struct strbuf base = STRBUF_INIT;
 
-	/* Hack to avoid modifying the untracked cache when we read it */
-	ignore_untracked_cache_config = 1;
+	/* Set core.untrackedCache=keep before setup_git_directory() */
+	xsetenv("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1", 1);
+	xsetenv("GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0", "core.untrackedCache", 1);
+	xsetenv("GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0", "keep", 1);
 
 	setup_git_directory();
 	if (read_cache() < 0)