Hi Philip, On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Philip Oakley wrote: > The minor pedant did notice that the new location is listed slightly > differently from the release notes. > `file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/../etc/gitconfig`  --system, > while the release notes simplify the path to C:/Program > Files/Git/etc/gitconfig That's a good point. I guess that it would make sense to normalize the location of the system gitconfig: -- snip -- Subject: [PATCH] config: normalize the path of the system gitconfig Git for Windows is compiled with a runtime prefix, and that runtime prefix is typically `C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64`. As we want the system gitconfig to live in the sibling directory `etc`, we define the relative path as `../etc/gitconfig`. However, as reported by Philip Oakley, the output of `git config --show-origin --system -l` looks rather ugly, as it shows the path as `file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/../etc/gitconfig`, i.e. with the `mingw64/../` part. By normalizing the path, we get a prettier path. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- config.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index e7052b39773..8e2f4748c49 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -1658,8 +1658,10 @@ static int git_config_from_blob_ref(config_fn_t fn, const char *git_etc_gitconfig(void) { static const char *system_wide; - if (!system_wide) + if (!system_wide) { system_wide = system_path(ETC_GITCONFIG); + normalize_path_copy((char *)system_wide, system_wide); + } return system_wide; } -- 2.24.0.rc1.windows.1 -- snap -- See also https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2370 Ciao, Dscho