On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to configure the location of ~/.gitconfig through an > environment variable. My usecase is a simple enough: I have a > repository with all my dotfiles, and I don't want to symlink > ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig from $HOME after cloning it. Does anyone else > think the feature will be useful? > > A couple of similar examples: > 1. The git templates directory is configurable via the > GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR variable. > 2. The location of ~/.zshrc, ~/.zlogin etc is configurable via the > ZDOTDIR variable in ZSH. There was some work recently to teach git about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable. Would that help, or are the XDG variables too global for your usage? -- David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html