----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:00:02AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Documentation/git-config.txt | 6 ++++-- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt > > b/Documentation/git-config.txt > > index 9ae2508..3198d52 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt > > @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ See also <<FILES>>. > > > > --system:: > > For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig > > - rather than the repository .git/config. > > + rather than the repository .git/config. However, $(prefix) is > > /usr > > + then /etc/gitconfig is used. > > That's a build time condition, not something that's decided at > runtime > so I'm not sure that this logic belongs in the user facing > documentation. The technically correct change would be to use > "$(sysconfdir)/gitconfig" but I think that will just confuse users > more. > > Since we have a build step for the documentation, I wonder if it's > possible to replace these with the correct directory at build time. Might work for documentation. I'd like a run-time variant for my particular problem, but the one I found now, e.g. git rev-parse --show-prefix" does not work in the general case. I want to tell JGit where the system wide configuration file is, even before we have a git repository. -- robin -- 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