From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:33:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060526193325.d2a530a4.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060526152837.GQ23852@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> git is unable to construct a reasonable default email address in my
> current environment. So, I use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
> to override things.
>
> This has worked well but, now, I need to vary the email address for some
> repositories. Unfortunately the environment variables override
> .git/config.
>
> It would be good if things were like:
> - try to construct one automagically
> - use ~/.git/config (if available)
> - use .git/config
> - use environment variables
>
> That way I could set my default email address in ~/.git/config and
> override it as required for those repositories that need it.
I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~. 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.
--
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-26 16:34 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 [this message]
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
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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