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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:51:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqzk4bfaua.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927173532.GD1547@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:35:32 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Also, have you considered using a config include? Like:
>
>   $ echo '[include]path = ~/my-dotfiles/gitconfig' >~/.gitconfig
>
> It's a one-time setup, and then you get updates inside my-dotfiles
> forever. The one-time setup is annoying, but you have to bootstrap
> somehow (e.g., you're going to have to copy a .profile or similar to get
> the GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG variable set).

I also strongly prefer symlinks or include over environment variables.
Relying on environment variables makes the setup a bit fragile, partly
because I often mess things up with my shell (e.g. I once had different
shell and environment variables in ~/.xsession and in actual shells,
hence different configuration depending on whether I launch stuff from
my window-manager or from a shell).

I could understand using environment variables for one-shot
configuration change (e.g. HOME=/tmp/ git whatever), but then $HOME is
sufficient in general.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26 14:14 Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-26 18:34 ` David Aguilar
2012-09-27  6:49   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27 14:46     ` [PATCH] config: introduce GIT_GLOBAL_CONFIG to override ~/.gitconfig Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27 16:57       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-27 17:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 17:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 17:35       ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 19:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 20:51         ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2012-09-28  7:05         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-27  6:09 ` Configuring the location of ~/.gitconfig Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27  6:40   ` Anurag Priyam
2012-09-27 17:16     ` Junio C Hamano

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