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

On 7/15/07, Bradford Smith [off-list ref] 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