From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:05:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=CCLrfM2Jr_JNVP0VQnp1dvRAkDjRrTsogvpD8rGrumw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120927173532.GD1547@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> Like the other reviews, I am not overly enthused. If we are going to add
> a new variable, I think $GIT_HOME makes a lot more sense. But it really
> sounds like using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME would be even simpler.
>
> Also, have you considered using a config include? Like:
>
>   $ echo '[include]path = ~/my-dotfiles/gitconfig' >~/.gitconfig

Sounds like this is the way to go.  Or I could pick up Junio's
suggestion to use a Makefile.  I'll discontinue working on the patch.

Thanks.

Ram