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Re: Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2012, 06:09 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> I'd like to configure the location of ~/.gitconfig through an
> environment variable.  My usecase is a simple enough: I have a
> repository with all my dotfiles, and I don't want to symlink
> ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig from $HOME after cloning it.  Does anyone else
> think the feature will be useful?

Not me. For that particular use case, my approach (long before I switched the vcs that controls my dotfiles to git) have always been to have ~/src that is version controlled, with a Makefile that builds/adjusts dotfiles appropriately for each box and installs them in the proper place.

Of course, if .gitconfig _is_ the same across all boxes I use, that Makefile is likely to "install" by making a symlink ~/.gitconfig that points at src/dot/gitconfig without "building".

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Message 12 of 14 in “Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig”
  1. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 26, 2012
  2. David AguilarSep 26, 2012
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 27, 2012
  4. config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfigRamkumar Ramachandra, Sep 27, 2012
  5. Matthieu MoySep 27, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
  8. Jeff KingSep 27, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
  10. Matthieu MoySep 27, 2012
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 28, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
  13. Anurag PriyamSep 27, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012

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