Re: [PATCH] Documentation: finding $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig when prefix = /usr

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] writes:

I guess this isn't true either. Anyone has a better way of
specifiying where the system wide config file is read from,
or a user-parseable definition of $(prefix) ?

	... the system-wide configuration file (typically
	/etc/gitconfig), rather than the repository specific
	configuration file (.git/config)

should be sufficient.

-- robin

----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----

quoted

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <redacted>
---
 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.
 +
 For reading options: read only from system-wide
 $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
 rather than from all available files.

@@ -214,7 +215,8 @@ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config::
 	file was added fairly recently.
 
 $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig::
-	System-wide configuration file.
+	System-wide configuration file, unless $(prefix) is /usr. In the
+	latter case /etc/gitconfig is used.
 
 If no further options are given, all reading options will read all
 of these
 files that are available. If the global or the system-wide
 configuration
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