Re: Querying Git for the path to the system config file

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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:23:55PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> I was in need to find out the path to the system-wide config file that
> Git is using. I need to do this in a platform-independent way (Linux,
> Mac OS X, Windows). What I came up with is
> 
> $ GIT_EDITOR=echo git config --system --edit
> 
> to trick Git into printing the path instead of opening the file in an editor.
> 
> Just wondering, is there a less hacky way to do that?

No, there isn't. It's baked in at compile-time, so something similar to
"git --exec-path" might make sense (but if we are going to start
exposing a lot of build flags, it might be nice to come up with some
organized system rather than haphazardly adding options).

Of course adding a new option probably won't help you, as it will take
some time before it can be used reliably. I think the hack you came up
with is pretty reasonable in the meantime.

-Peff
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