From a9b8a0a0fc587f511af6253eee9ce3000541c4b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Olsson <j.markus.olsson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 10:58:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] :book:

---
 lib/git-environment.ts | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/git-environment.ts b/lib/git-environment.ts
index 4eb57a44..c8d83c9f 100644
--- a/lib/git-environment.ts
+++ b/lib/git-environment.ts
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ export function setupEnvironment(
     }
   }
 
+  // On Windows the contained Git environment (minGit) ships with a system level
+  // gitconfig that we can control but on macOS and Linux /etc/gitconfig is used
+  // as the system-wide configuration file and we're unable to modify it.
+  //
+  // So in order to be able to provide our own sane defaults that can be overriden
+  // by the user's global and local configuration we'll tell Git to use
+  // dugite-native's custom gitconfig on those platforms.
   if (process.platform !== 'win32' && !env.GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM) {
     env.GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM = path.join(gitDir, 'etc', 'gitconfig')
   }