Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Bradford Smith wrote: > >> 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. > > Alternatively, you could actually not ignore my hint at readlink(2) and > have a proper fix, instead of playing games with environment variables. Wouldn't it be nicer to avoid a lot of the complexity in checking symlinks, environment variables and what not, and just overwrite the file in place (with open(..., O_TRUNC | O_CREAT))? Does it happen terribly often that git-config crashes in the middle and leaves the file broken? Fredrik Tolf - 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
