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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME))
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:19:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424061911.GQ17480@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8xci9uea.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
> > Use ifeq in the Makefile to set ETC_GITCONFIG=/etc/gitconfig unless the prefix
> > points to $HOME .
> 
> I personally have four installations of git under $HOME by
> setting prefix to $HOME/git-{maint,master,next,pu}.  I would
> rather not see this to break, as I suspect there are other
> people who depend on this behaviour.

I second that.  :-)

$ cat config.mak
...
current_branch := \
	$(subst refs/heads/,,$(shell git-symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null))
ifeq ($(current_branch),)
	prefix := $(HOME)/sw/git-unknownbuild
else
	prefix := $(HOME)/sw/git-$(current_branch)
EOF

;-)

-- 
Shawn.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-24  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-24  2:11 [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME)) Josh Triplett
2007-04-24  4:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24  5:44   ` Josh Triplett
2007-04-24  5:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24  7:23       ` Josh Triplett
2007-04-24  7:51         ` [PATCH] Create a sysconfdir variable, and use it for ETC_GITCONFIG Josh Triplett
2007-04-24  8:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24  6:08 ` [PATCH] Only use ETC_GITCONFIG=$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig ifeq ($(prefix),$(HOME)) Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24  6:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-24  9:05     ` Sergio Callegari
2007-04-24  6:19   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]

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