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Re: [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 24, 2007, 06:08 UTC
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Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
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> ETC_GITCONFIG defaults to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig, so if you just set
> prefix=/usr or prefix=/usr/local, you end up with a git that looks in
> /usr/etc/gitconfig or /usr/local/etc/gitconfig.  That seems rather suboptimal.
>
> 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.

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Message 8 of 11 in “Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))”
  1. Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))Josh Triplett, Apr 24, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2007
  3. Josh TriplettApr 24, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2007
  5. Josh TriplettApr 24, 2007
  6. Create a sysconfdir variable, and use it for ETC_GITCONFIGJosh Triplett, Apr 24, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2007
  10. Sergio CallegariApr 24, 2007
  11. Shawn O. PearceApr 24, 2007

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