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From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:44:13 +0100
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>>> Yep, which is why I made it a synonym; git-gui uses the
>>> --global option, for example, and I'm confident that other
>>> (user) scripts use it too. The "future" I had in mind was
>>> something like 1 year down the road, but it could be longer
>>> (or forever) if necessary.
>> Please read my reply as "I vote against ever removing the --global 
>> option".
> 
> I would say with --system present, I do not see much point
> having the new alias --user either.  Get used to it.  It is
> global across the repositories you have control over.
> 

OK

ATB,

Ramsay Jones