Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file

["Bradford Smith" <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>]

On 7/16/07, Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> > 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?
> > > 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?
>
> Thanks for suggesting that.
>
> Actually, by looking at the code I discovered I could use the
> environment variable GIT_CONFIG to specify where the configuration
> file is, and I have already changed my setup to use this.
> Unfortunately, I found the documentation for this variable in
> git-config(1) confusing or I would have used it before.  If I get the
> chance, I'll submit a patch for git-config.txt, and maybe for git.txt
> as well, since it lists lots of other environment variables but not
> GIT_CONFIG or GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bradford
>

Drat!  The documentation wasn't as wrong as I had hoped.  If I set
GIT_CONFIG, git will ignore $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig and ~/.git/config,
which isn't what I want.  So, I guess I need to add a GIT_CONFIG_HOME
environment variable.  If I get that done, I'll send a patch to the
list including doc updates.

Of course, if someone else wants to do it first, I won't complain. B')

Thanks,

Bradford