My understanding is that git reads the priority of configuration as follows:
1. <local_repo>/.git/config 2. $HOME/.gitconfig 3. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config 4. system level git config (not sure exactly where this is; not relevant to me on Windows) I have a .gitconfig in Dropbox that I symlink to my home directory on different platforms. Specifically, I share this gitconfig across Cygwin/msys on Windows and Ubuntu. If I can use XDG_CONFIG_HOME to leverage platform-specific settings, I'd be able to keep platform-agnostic settings in my $HOME/.gitconfig and put platform-specific settings in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config and simply give XDG_CONFIG_HOME a different name on different platforms. Is this what it was designed for? If not, what would be the best approach for this? I was thinking of contributing a patch that would let you specify the name of your git config in the home directory, but I'm not sure if that is necessary. Something like this: $HOME/$GIT_CONFIG_FILENAME, where GIT_CONFIG_FILENAME defaults to ".gitconfig" if it is not set or empty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
