From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 06:38:27 GMT
Subject: Re: How to properly find git config in a libgit.a-using executable?
Message-ID: <20190323063827.GA9227@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1903221436590.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:39:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> How about
> 
> 	GIT_EDITOR=echo git config --system -e 2>/dev/null
> 
> It will error out if the directory does not exist, for some reason, e.g.
> when you installed Git in your home directory via `make install` from a
> fresh clone. So you'll have to cope with that contingency.

Oh, that's much more clever than mine. I did wonder if it would require
the containing directory to be writable, but it seems that "--edit" does
not do the usual lock-and-rename.

-Peff