Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Bradford Smith wrote:
>
>> So, I guess I need to add a GIT_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.  If I 
>> get that done, I'll send a patch to the list including doc updates.
>
> Alternatively, you could actually not ignore my hint at readlink(2) and 
> have a proper fix, instead of playing games with environment variables.

Wouldn't it be nicer to avoid a lot of the complexity in checking
symlinks, environment variables and what not, and just overwrite the
file in place (with open(..., O_TRUNC | O_CREAT))? Does it happen
terribly often that git-config crashes in the middle and leaves the
file broken?

Fredrik Tolf

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