From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:37:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Message-ID: <dbfc82860707160237v6772b5b8o541f2045ccd824d5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f158199e0707151427h52da3e38rae3be6e44e27e918@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/15/07, Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the number of dot-files and dot-directories that I have in my
> home directory these days is somewhat overwhelming, I like to keep
> those I directly edit all together in an ~/etc directory so I can
> easily back them up and/or copy them in bulk to new accounts.  So,
> several of my home dot-files are just symlinks to something in ~/etc,
> including ~/.gitconfig.

How about adding an environment variable telling Git where to find
user-global .gitconfig instead?

  nikolai