From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [BUG] PREFIX environment variable ignored by git config --system
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:20:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008501db727a$80b08430$82118c90$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbjvpk1wo.fsf@gitster.g>
On January 29, 2025 11:42 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
>> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
>>
>> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>>
>> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your
>> issue) export PREFIX=/home/randall git config --system --list
>>
>> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Git should use
>> ${PREFIX}/etc/gitconfig instead of the build location to
>
>But that is now how PREFIX works, as far as I remember. PREFIX is a
build-time
>thing.
>
>Perhaps you are looking for RUNTIME_PREFIX build-time option? I do not
know
>how well it is maintained these days, and if it allows you to futz with the
paths at
>runtime (without _moving_ the executable and all other installation
material en
>masse), though.
I did try that at runtime. No luck. I think we need to fix this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-29 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-29 16:34 [BUG] PREFIX environment variable ignored by git config --system rsbecker
2025-01-29 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-29 17:01 ` rsbecker
2025-01-29 20:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-29 20:33 ` rsbecker
2025-01-29 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-29 23:49 ` rsbecker
2025-01-29 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-30 0:07 ` rsbecker
2025-01-30 0:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-30 0:37 ` rsbecker
2025-01-30 19:37 ` Ben Knoble
2025-01-30 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-01-29 18:20 ` rsbecker [this message]
2025-01-29 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
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