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Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 26, 2012, 14:14 UTC
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Hi,

I'd like to configure the location of ~/.gitconfig through an environment variable. My usecase is a simple enough: I have a repository with all my dotfiles, and I don't want to symlink ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig from $HOME after cloning it. Does anyone else think the feature will be useful?

A couple of similar examples:
1. The git templates directory is configurable via the
GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR variable.
2. The location of ~/.zshrc, ~/.zlogin etc is configurable via the
ZDOTDIR variable in ZSH.
Ram
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  2. David AguilarSep 26, 2012
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  4. config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfigRamkumar Ramachandra, Sep 27, 2012
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  11. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 28, 2012
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