From: Bradford Smith Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:26:01 GMT Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 7/16/07, Bradford Smith wrote: > On 7/16/07, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > On 7/15/07, Bradford Smith 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? > > > 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? > > Thanks for suggesting that. > > Actually, by looking at the code I discovered I could use the > environment variable GIT_CONFIG to specify where the configuration > file is, and I have already changed my setup to use this. > Unfortunately, I found the documentation for this variable in > git-config(1) confusing or I would have used it before. If I get the > chance, I'll submit a patch for git-config.txt, and maybe for git.txt > as well, since it lists lots of other environment variables but not > GIT_CONFIG or GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL. > > Thanks, > > Bradford > Drat! The documentation wasn't as wrong as I had hoped. If I set GIT_CONFIG, git will ignore $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig and ~/.git/config, which isn't what I want. So, I guess I need to add a GIT_CONFIG_HOME environment variable. If I get that done, I'll send a patch to the list including doc updates. Of course, if someone else wants to do it first, I won't complain. B') Thanks, Bradford