From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:16:10 GMT Subject: Re: Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig Message-ID: <7vzk4bqtd1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Anurag Priyam writes: >> 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. > > Makefile is what I wanted to avoid when I suggested Ram that maybe Git > could _optionally_ read the location of global gitconfig from an > environment variable that can be exported in zshenv or bash_profile. Where exactly do the "zshenv" and "bash_profile" you mention reside, and how are their contents kept up to date? I am guessing it is /net/srv1/home/ram/.bash_profile on machines that mount user home directories from srv1 NFS server and it is to have a string like "export GITCONFIG_FILE=/net/srv1/home/ram/dot/gitconfig" or on those machines. The contents of ~ram/dot/gitconfig may be able to stay the same across boxes, but how is ~ram/.bash_profile is set up? Manually? Again, I am not personally interested; I think aversion of Make is the root cause of the disease.