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From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, lukass@etek.chalmers.se,
	git@vger.kernel.org, junkio@cox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] repo-config: learn the flag "--no-local"
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:36:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP04DDBAA584B31A4B0F31DCAE8B0@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060608123652.6c3acf76.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1wtzaa26.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:25:53 -0700
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:


> The wording "--no-local" means you are looking at things
> relative to a particular repository.  I.e. some configuration
> variables come from repository-local file, and others from
> somewhere else.  But I do not think that somewhere else is
> "global".  We are reading from $HOME, which is different
> depending on who is interacting with that same repository.  So I
> would probably call the other one "--user" or something if I
> were force to pick name.

--user or --home makes a lot of sense.  Alternatively you could
just be explicit: --config=~ or --config=/etc/gitconfig where
/.gitconfig is automatically appended to the path if it ends in
a directory name.

Sean

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-08 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08 11:31 [PATCH 2/2] repo-config: learn the flag "--no-local" Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-08 11:37 ` Lukas Sandström
2006-06-08 11:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-08 13:37     ` Karl Hasselström
2006-06-08 15:35       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2006-06-08 18:36         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-08 20:17           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-08 14:06     ` Alex Riesen
2006-06-08 16:25     ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]       ` <20060608123652.6c3acf76.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-08 16:36         ` Sean [this message]
2006-06-08 20:24           ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]             ` <20060608163045.abd03553.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-08 20:30               ` Sean
2006-06-08 20:42                 ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]                   ` <20060608165525.e42917d2.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-08 20:55                     ` Sean
2006-06-08 21:10                       ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]                         ` <20060608172315.15c2af3c.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-08 21:23                           ` Sean
2006-06-08 20:55                   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-08 21:03                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-08 21:15                       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-08 15:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2006-06-08 20:18   ` Johannes Schindelin

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