From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, Shawn Pearce <sop@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: finding $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig when prefix = /usr
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 00:32:06 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436467098.1055670.1373236326672.JavaMail.root@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130707222152.GV9161@serenity.lan>
----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:00:02AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/git-config.txt | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> > b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> > index 9ae2508..3198d52 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> > @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
> >
> > --system::
> > For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
> > - rather than the repository .git/config.
> > + rather than the repository .git/config. However, $(prefix) is
> > /usr
> > + then /etc/gitconfig is used.
>
> That's a build time condition, not something that's decided at
> runtime
> so I'm not sure that this logic belongs in the user facing
> documentation. The technically correct change would be to use
> "$(sysconfdir)/gitconfig" but I think that will just confuse users
> more.
>
> Since we have a build step for the documentation, I wonder if it's
> possible to replace these with the correct directory at build time.
Might work for documentation. I'd like a run-time variant for my
particular problem, but the one I found now, e.g. git rev-parse --show-prefix"
does not work in the general case. I want to tell JGit where the system
wide configuration file is, even before we have a git repository.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-07 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-07 22:00 [PATCH] Documentation: finding $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig when prefix = /usr Robin Rosenberg
2013-07-07 22:21 ` John Keeping
2013-07-07 22:32 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2013-07-07 22:23 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-07-07 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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