From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:35:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927173532.GD1547@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348757171-3223-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:16:11PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> index eaea079..c8db03f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> @@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ $GIT_DIR/config::
> User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
> configuration file.
>
> +$GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG::
> + Overrides the path of the global configuration file.
> +
Like the other reviews, I am not overly enthused. If we are going to add
a new variable, I think $GIT_HOME makes a lot more sense. But it really
sounds like using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME would be even simpler.
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).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 14:14 Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-26 18:34 ` David Aguilar
2012-09-27 6:49 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27 14:46 ` [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27 16:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-27 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 17:35 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-27 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 20:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-28 7:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27 6:09 ` Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 6:40 ` Anurag Priyam
2012-09-27 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
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