From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D30620248 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 06:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726096AbfCWGia (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:30 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:33512 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1726046AbfCWGia (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:30 -0400 Received: (qmail 25059 invoked by uid 109); 23 Mar 2019 06:38:29 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 06:38:29 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 26781 invoked by uid 111); 23 Mar 2019 06:38:52 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:52 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:38:27 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: Mike Hommey , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to properly find git config in a libgit.a-using executable? Message-ID: <20190323063827.GA9227@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20190320101941.2xjsjx3zfnnp33a2@glandium.org> <20190322073311.GA839@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:39:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > How about > > GIT_EDITOR=echo git config --system -e 2>/dev/null > > It will error out if the directory does not exist, for some reason, e.g. > when you installed Git in your home directory via `make install` from a > fresh clone. So you'll have to cope with that contingency. Oh, that's much more clever than mine. I did wonder if it would require the containing directory to be writable, but it seems that "--edit" does not do the usual lock-and-rename. -Peff