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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: git should not use a default user.email config value
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:28:24 +0200
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>,
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> I guess we could do something like:
>>
>>   [include "repo:...your regex here..."]
>>     path = .gitconfig-only-for-some-repos
>>   [include "env:USE_MY_MAGIC_CONFIG"]
>>     path = .gitconfig-only-when-magic-env-set
>
> I am not sure if "env" is very useful, but there certainly are other
> possibilities (e.g. apply this only on this host, only for members
> of this UNIX group, etc.)

I have already wished I had "git version >= XXX" here (but that's tricky
to implement).

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Matthieu Moy
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