> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My understanding is that git reads the priority of configuration as follows: >> >> 1. <local_repo>/.git/config >> 2. $HOME/.gitconfig >> 3. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config $HOME/.gitconfig is the traditional Unix location for config files. It was the only per-user config files in early versions of Git. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config is the location following freedesktop's XDG standard. It has several advantages (you can version and/or share individual $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ as a whole directory, while it's much harder to version all ~/.git* files individually for example). You typically want to use either one or the other. >> 4. system level git config (not sure exactly where this is; not >> relevant to me on Windows) This is relevant if you use a shared machine and your sysadmin wants to have the same configuration for all users. > 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 Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As a follow-up, I tested the following in my .bashrc: > > > # Utilize different GIT settings based on platform > if [[ $OSTYPE == 'msys' || $OSTYPE == 'cygwin' ]]; then > echo 'Using WINDOWS specific git settings' > export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=.config-windows You need an absolute directory here: export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config-windows Then, I'd suggest that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config contains a [include] path = ../../.config-shared/git/config so that you can factor out common portions of your config file into .config-shared/git/config and keep machine-specific portions in ~/.config-{windows,linux}. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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