Make gitconfig system independent by using m4.

This replaces HOME with the current home directory. This was necessary as git
needs an absolute path for excludesfile.

gitconfig.m4 is automatically created when calling `make setup`.

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..72db1de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Ignore generated files.
+gitconfig

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6bae053e4957421a3405b868c2d966ea33cea63c..6caf0e5fc25eab3c3a5aa82c9dff068dcbc8cf6e 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
 
 
 # Generate necessary files and create symbolic links in ~/.
+M4=../m4.sh
 LINK=../link.sh
 .PHONY: setup
 setup:
+       # Generate gitconfig.
+       $(M4) gitconfig -DHOME=$(HOME)
        # Link setup.
        $(LINK) gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
        $(LINK) gitignore ~/.gitignore

diff --git a/gitconfig b/gitconfig.m4
similarity index 78%
rename from gitconfig
rename to gitconfig.m4
index 7421a256289e17d44ed903d2045ed39f897a1061..f2b86b4e4d23a251b907b24766dfd80fe732696f 100644 (file)
--- a/gitconfig
+++ b/gitconfig.m4
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
        diff = auto
 
 [core]
-       excludesfile = /Users/simonruderich/.gitignore
+       excludesfile = HOME/.gitignore
 
 [alias]
        ci = commit -v