Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2012, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk3vfqrrp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq626zjtds.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
>> index eaea079..c8db03f 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
>> @@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ $GIT_DIR/config::
>>  	User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
>>  	configuration file.
>>  
>> +$GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG::
>> +	Overrides the path of the global configuration file.
>> +
>
> I'm not particularly in favor of introducing another environment
> variable, but if you are to introduce it, why just override the
> configuration file, and not $HOME completely (e.g. to override
> $HOME/.git-credentials too).
>
> There was a patch proposing that here ($GIT_HOME to override $HOME):

I think both of these are at the entrance of slippery slope to insanity I'd rather not to venture into.

If somebody hates ~/.dotmanyfiles so much, why not do HOME=~/dots/, instead of having to set GIT_HOME to move ~/.gitconfig, FROTZ_HOME to move ~/.frotzconfig, MAIL_HOME to move ~/.mailrc, etc.?

I wouldn't be surprised if some _other_ things break with your HOME pointing at a directory inside your home directory, but then it may be better to fix that other thing instead.