On 7/16/07, Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/16/07, Nikolai Weibull <now@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/15/07, Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since the number of dot-files and dot-directories that I have in my > > home directory these days is somewhat overwhelming, I like to keep > > those I directly edit all together in an ~/etc directory so I can > > easily back them up and/or copy them in bulk to new accounts. So, > > several of my home dot-files are just symlinks to something in ~/etc, > > including ~/.gitconfig. > > How about adding an environment variable telling Git where to find > user-global .gitconfig instead? > > home directory these days is somewhat overwhelming, I like to keep > > those I directly edit all together in an ~/etc directory so I can > > easily back them up and/or copy them in bulk to new accounts. So, > > several of my home dot-files are just symlinks to something in ~/etc, > > including ~/.gitconfig. > > How about adding an environment variable telling Git where to find > user-global .gitconfig instead? Thanks for suggesting that. Actually, by looking at the code I discovered I could use the environment variable GIT_CONFIG to specify where the configuration file is, and I have already changed my setup to use this. Unfortunately, I found the documentation for this variable in git-config(1) confusing or I would have used it before. If I get the chance, I'll submit a patch for git-config.txt, and maybe for git.txt as well, since it lists lots of other environment variables but not GIT_CONFIG or GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL. Thanks, Bradford
Drat! The documentation wasn't as wrong as I had hoped. If I set GIT_CONFIG, git will ignore $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig and ~/.git/config, which isn't what I want. So, I guess I need to add a GIT_CONFIG_HOME environment variable. If I get that done, I'll send a patch to the list including doc updates. Of course, if someone else wants to do it first, I won't complain. B') Thanks, Bradford - 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
