Re: [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> ETC_GITCONFIG defaults to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig, so if you just set
>> prefix=/usr or prefix=/usr/local, you end up with a git that looks in
>> /usr/etc/gitconfig or /usr/local/etc/gitconfig.  That seems rather suboptimal.
>>
>> Use ifeq in the Makefile to set ETC_GITCONFIG=/etc/gitconfig unless the prefix
>> points to $HOME .
>
> I personally have four installations of git under $HOME by
> setting prefix to $HOME/git-{maint,master,next,pu}.  I would
> rather not see this to break, as I suspect there are other
> people who depend on this behaviour.

Also what happens to people who use "prefix=/usr/local"?

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