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 -- 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