Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/git-config.txt | 3 +++
> path.c | 5 +++++
> t/t1306-xdg-files.sh | 8 ++++++++
> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> 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.
> +
Why is this even a good idea?
- Does it make sense not to read $HOME/.gitconfig or XDG stuff
when this is set? Why skip them? If it makes sense to skip
them, why doesn't it also skip $GIT_DIR/config and/or
/etc/gitconfig? - Why is it not "the third user-specific configuration file" instead?
- Why is it not "a list of paths to read configurations from"?
- Where does it end?
Not overly impressed, I'd have to say.
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> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> index cbbdf7d..9b09cee 100644
> --- a/path.c
> +++ b/path.c
> @@ -131,10 +131,15 @@ char *git_path(const char *fmt, ...)
>
> void home_config_paths(char **global, char **xdg, char *file)
> {
> + char *global_config = getenv("GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG");
> char *xdg_home = getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
> char *home = getenv("HOME");
> char *to_free = NULL;
>
> + if (global_config) {
> + *global = mkpathdup("%s", global_config);
> + return;
> + }
> if (!home) {
> if (global)
> *global = NULL;
> diff --git a/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh b/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> index 8b14ab1..5b0e08e 100755
> --- a/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> +++ b/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> @@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ test_expect_success 'read config: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
> test_cmp expected actual
> '
>
> +test_expect_success 'read config: $GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG is set and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
> + >.gitconfig &&
> + echo "[alias]" >.gittestconfig &&
> + echo " myalias = !echo in_gitconfig" >>.gittestconfig &&
> + echo in_gitconfig >expected &&
> + GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG=~/.gittestconfig git myalias >actual &&How is this tilde expanded and by whom?
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>