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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Bradford Smith" <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:37:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860707160237v6772b5b8o541f2045ccd824d5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f158199e0707151427h52da3e38rae3be6e44e27e918@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/15/07, Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the number of dot-files and dot-directories that I have in my
> home directory these days is somewhat overwhelming, I like to keep
> those I directly edit all together in an ~/etc directory so I can
> easily back them up and/or copy them in bulk to new accounts.  So,
> several of my home dot-files are just symlinks to something in ~/etc,
> including ~/.gitconfig.

How about adding an environment variable telling Git where to find
user-global .gitconfig instead?

  nikolai

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-15 21:27 git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file Bradford Smith
2007-07-15 23:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  9:37 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2007-07-16 11:33   ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-16 13:26     ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-16 22:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-25 16:49         ` [PATCH 0/2] git-config should not replace symlink Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 16:49           ` [PATCH 1/2] resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 16:49             ` [PATCH 2/2] use lockfile.c routines in git_commit_set_multivar() Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 23:35             ` [PATCH 1/2] resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Junio C Hamano
2007-07-26 16:55               ` [PATCH] use lockfile.c routines in git_commit_set_multivar() Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-26 18:31                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 18:48                   ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-27  4:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-27  4:53                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-27  9:05                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-27 18:24                         ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-26 17:34               ` [PATCH] fully resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-26 18:35                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 19:34                 ` Morten Welinder
2007-07-27 16:50                   ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-27  7:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 13:56       ` git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-17 14:27         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-17 20:35         ` Fredrik Tolf
2007-07-17 20:48           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-17 13:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2007-07-17 16:09   ` Johannes Schindelin

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