> Junio C Hamano <junkio <at> cox.net> writes: > > > Josh Triplett <josh <at> freedesktop.org> 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. > >> > Also what happens to people who use "prefix=/usr/local"? > Could it be better to set ETC_GITCONFIG=/etc/gitconfig /only/ if prefix is /usr? These would possibly make all people who have git in /usr/local or in /opt/Git or in /home happier... If I am not wrong, /usr is the only prefix, where, for historical reasons there is no /usr/etc but /etc is used. Having /usr/local/etc does not seem that bad. And /opt/Git/etc appears surely ok. Sergio - 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