Environment variables in .gitfat not working correctly

[marcuslvgrn]

I'm trying to use an environment variable in the .gitfat file, like
-> cat .gitfat
[rsync]
remote = localhost:$GIT_FAT_DIR

and

-> echo $GIT_FAT_DIR
/tmp/gitfat

But it gives the result

-> git fat pull
Pulling from localhost:$GIT_FAT_DIR
Executing: rsync --progress --ignore-existing --from0 --files-from=- localhost:$GIT_FAT_DIR/ /tmp/repo/.git/fat/objects/
GIT_FAT_DIR: Undefined variable.
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.6]

Is it possible to use a variable there, and if so, how do you write it?

[jedbrown]

Marcus Lövgren [email protected] writes:

I'm trying to use an environment variable in the .gitfat file, like
-> cat .gitfat
[rsync]
remote = localhost:$GIT_FAT_DIR

This is not supported by git config and I'm not interested in supporting
it (environment variables cause too many problems in my opinion). I
would like to add a local git config (e.g., stored in .git/config) that
could be used to override .gitfat on a per-repository basis. Ideally
this change would come with the ability to name remotes.