From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:19:24 +0000 Message-ID: <200702151019.25409.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200702140909.28369.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vfy98snus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Peter Baumann To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 15 11:19:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHdiF-000277-W5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:19:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965777AbXBOKTc (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:19:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965776AbXBOKTc (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:19:32 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:63324 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965773AbXBOKTb (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:19:31 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so101163uga for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:19:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=PBKtyCUGNdp7pZ66JEnnvK/U3aVb2p/hdY4SGPmmPf1+JszGlp8/GiZUYgun49it77RaY2pdUW9NrXjvRG7Sw4CH7PtSSMvamz3QEMlkGgQrRNbvyaVA9OFqlnuM47HLjd+A8N4YwkDLz3NF0aI6EGiaM6dmO5G65/y/IwLdzL0= Received: by 10.67.28.4 with SMTP id f4mr1313831ugj.1171534769369; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 360run094l ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id s1sm1957900uge.2007.02.15.02.19.26; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:19:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7vfy98snus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday 2007 February 14 16:30, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Site-wide configuration for options that are potentially > compatibility-breaking is a bad idea on a multi-user machines, > and it was certainly the case back when our machines hosted many > diverse set of people. Isn't it more likely that on a multi-user machine all users are sharing one install of git - in which case you do want the upgrade of facilities to be system-wide. Otherwise you have to tell every user to edit their .gitconfig to enable the new facilities - users shouldn't have to care about that sort of thing, that's what admins are for. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com