From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Querying Git for the path to the system config file
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 17:01:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150520210143.GC8421@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuPCZCBsBXqGo26E-pcuZXZBxL8GwAehW4UziDpB2V8Npw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:23:55PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> I was in need to find out the path to the system-wide config file that
> Git is using. I need to do this in a platform-independent way (Linux,
> Mac OS X, Windows). What I came up with is
>
> $ GIT_EDITOR=echo git config --system --edit
>
> to trick Git into printing the path instead of opening the file in an editor.
>
> Just wondering, is there a less hacky way to do that?
No, there isn't. It's baked in at compile-time, so something similar to
"git --exec-path" might make sense (but if we are going to start
exposing a lot of build flags, it might be nice to come up with some
organized system rather than haphazardly adding options).
Of course adding a new option probably won't help you, as it will take
some time before it can be used reliably. I think the hack you came up
with is pretty reasonable in the meantime.
-Peff
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2015-05-20 20:23 Querying Git for the path to the system config file Sebastian Schuberth
2015-05-20 21:01 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-20 21:22 ` Sebastian Schuberth
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