Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 27, 2012, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzk4bfaua.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20120927173532.GD1547@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Also, have you considered using a config include? Like:
>
>   $ echo '[include]path = ~/my-dotfiles/gitconfig' >~/.gitconfig
>
> It's a one-time setup, and then you get updates inside my-dotfiles
> forever. The one-time setup is annoying, but you have to bootstrap
> somehow (e.g., you're going to have to copy a .profile or similar to get
> the GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG variable set).

I also strongly prefer symlinks or include over environment variables. Relying on environment variables makes the setup a bit fragile, partly because I often mess things up with my shell (e.g. I once had different shell and environment variables in ~/.xsession and in actual shells, hence different configuration depending on whether I launch stuff from my window-manager or from a shell).

I could understand using environment variables for one-shot configuration change (e.g. HOME=/tmp/ git whatever), but then $HOME is sufficient in general.

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Matthieu Moy
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