From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to properly find git config in a libgit.a-using executable?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190323063827.GA9227@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1903221436590.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:39:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> How about
>
> GIT_EDITOR=echo git config --system -e 2>/dev/null
>
> It will error out if the directory does not exist, for some reason, e.g.
> when you installed Git in your home directory via `make install` from a
> fresh clone. So you'll have to cope with that contingency.
Oh, that's much more clever than mine. I did wonder if it would require
the containing directory to be writable, but it seems that "--edit" does
not do the usual lock-and-rename.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-23 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 10:19 How to properly find git config in a libgit.a-using executable? Mike Hommey
2019-03-22 7:33 ` Jeff King
2019-03-22 13:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-22 14:19 ` Mike Hommey
2019-03-25 14:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-23 6:38 ` Jeff King [this message]
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