Allow ETC_GITCONFIG to be a relative path.
If ETC_GITCONFIG is not an absolute path, interpret it relative to
--exec-dir. This makes the installed binaries relocatable because the
prefix is not compiled-in.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index cee2d26..ed96213 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
*
*/
#include "cache.h"
+#include "exec_cmd.h"
#define MAXNAME (256)
@@ -461,7 +462,17 @@
const char *git_etc_gitconfig(void)
{
- return ETC_GITCONFIG;
+ static const char *system_wide;
+ if (!system_wide) {
+ system_wide = ETC_GITCONFIG;
+ if (!is_absolute_path(system_wide)) {
+ /* interpret path relative to exec-dir */
+ const char *exec_path = git_exec_path();
+ system_wide = prefix_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path),
+ system_wide);
+ }
+ }
+ return system_wide;
}
int git_config(config_fn_t fn)
