From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:19:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))
Message-ID: <20070424061911.GQ17480@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xci9uea.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> 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.