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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:37:22 +0200
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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