Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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. I second that. :-) $ cat config.mak ... current_branch := \ $(subst refs/heads/,,$(shell git-symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)) ifeq ($(current_branch),) prefix := $(HOME)/sw/git-unknownbuild else prefix := $(HOME)/sw/git-$(current_branch) EOF ;-) -- Shawn. - 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