title: Can Visual Studio use an .editorconfig not in the directory hierarchy?
body: <p>We have a very large number of solutions spread across a wide number of repositories which do not always share a directory hierarchy in a way that makes it easy for us to update an .editorconfig such that it applies to all projects/solutions in the organization. We currently apply all of our code analysis configuration via an internal NuGet package and I was hoping we could include our organization-wide .editorconfig settings in this way as well?</p>
  
  <p>I tried a quick experiment adding the following to a project to see if linked files would be honored (since we could simply add this to a props file we already have in the NuGet package), but it does not appear to be honored currently. </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>  &lt;ItemGroup&gt;
      &lt;None Include="C:\SomeAlternatePath\ECTest\.editorconfig" Link=".editorconfig" /&gt;
    &lt;/ItemGroup&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there some other MSBuild property or mechanism we could use to better facilitate this without literally writing a duplicate file to every solution/project/repo?</p>