From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:08:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))
Message-ID: <7v8xci9uea.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <462D673A.1010805@freedesktop.org>

Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:

> 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.