From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timo Hirvonen Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ? Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:05:26 +0300 Message-ID: <20060526200526.d8a2f776.tihirvon@gmail.com> References: <20060526152837.GQ23852@progsoc.uts.edu.au> <20060526193325.d2a530a4.tihirvon@gmail.com> <20060526163829.GB10488@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 26 19:07:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjfmV-00045J-Fi for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 19:07:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751163AbWEZRHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751171AbWEZRHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:07:18 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:44670 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163AbWEZRHQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 13:07:16 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so96381nfc for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 10:07:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AxEO/gzXNSrPCwBU3zPCw1gufcYtjUbKrSajFySIWTDXx7Z0TQB06ECE1V5VC/uLNOSjydj9OyXmhwcNhtBwSsRi8kOh+np312zAgaWG/IG/O+NwwcRLHfOm/UyTRhlz9FnXlt3t6mMmoqR4S44hQS5lsp9aNe4QQ/iysEuqq8A= Received: by 10.49.6.9 with SMTP id j9mr2651nfi; Fri, 26 May 2006 10:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garlic.home.net ( [82.128.200.31]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id d2sm690128nfe.2006.05.26.10.03.27; Fri, 26 May 2006 10:03:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20060526163829.GB10488@pasky.or.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.3 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:33:25PM CEST, I got a letter > where Timo Hirvonen said that... > > I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~. > > Then it should be called ~/.gitconfig. :-) I just wanted to point the fact that ~/.git/ could not be used :) > > 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 " -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/