Setting environment variables for SmartGit to use

Question

I have a pre-commit hook that runs some tests. This used to work great until the tests started to rely on environment variables. Is there a way to set those environment variables in SmartGit so the pre-commit tests can complete?

Answer 1

SmartGit will pass all environment variables of its own to the forked git process. Hence, if you make sure that SmartGit is started with the correct configuration, your pre-commit hook should work.

Answer 2

Two options:

1) Add your variables to /etc/profile or /etc/launchd.conf and SmartGit will pick them up.

2) Simply launch SmartGit from the shell instead of the desktop environment and your variables from files such as ~/.bashrc will be present. (That's what I'm doing, using a brief alias for convenience.)