From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
To: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Cc: wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:11:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060526171102.GH11941@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060526200526.d8a2f776.tihirvon@gmail.com>
Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:05:26PM CEST, I got a letter
where Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> said that...
> > > I don't think a global config file is really needed but it would be
> > > nice if .git/config would override the environment variables, not the
> > > other way around.
> >
> > Then you have no other way to override .git/config e.g. when committing
> > patches submitted by other people.
>
> git commit --author "name <email>"
Except that this just sets the environment variables for you. :-)
Now, you could do some really funny stuff with overriding the
environment variables at git commit's entry point with .git/config
stuff, then possibly setting them again in case --author was passed, but
I seriously think such a confusion is not worth it.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 15:28 ~/.git/config ? Anand Kumria
2006-05-26 16:33 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-26 16:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-26 16:38 ` Petr Baudis
2006-05-26 17:05 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-26 17:11 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2006-05-27 2:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-27 2:57 ` Petr Baudis
2006-05-27 3:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-27 3:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-27 4:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-27 3:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-27 9:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-27 12:52 ` Horst von Brand
2006-05-28 21:59 ` [PATCH] Support for configurable git command aliases Petr Baudis
2006-05-28 22:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-29 3:58 ` Jeff King
2006-05-29 2:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-29 8:02 ` Petr Baudis
2006-05-27 8:50 ` ~/.git/config ? Nikolai Weibull
2006-05-27 9:09 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-26 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-28 22:26 ` [PATCH] Read configuration also from ~/.gitrc Petr Baudis
2006-05-29 7:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-29 14:00 ` Jakub Narebski
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