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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Document toplevel gitconfig file
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:52:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101127155202.GA25598@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f15d6598e5e90de3bcdb8caf706735ac4809ad36.1290870042.git.nathan.panike@gmail.com>

Nathan W. Panike wrote:

> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
>  fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
>  can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
>  
> +One can also create a `.gitconfig` file in the toplevel of the
> +repository. This config file will then be propogated to collaborators
> +when they pull from your repository.  Only `alias` config variables are
> +allowed to be set in this `.gitconfig` file.  One can turn off the
> +shared `.gitconfig` by setting the environment variable
> +'GIT_CONFIG_NOSHARED' to 1; it will then be propogated but will not be
> +used for configuration settings.

Please no.  Why not set up aliases in a setup-aliases.sh script and
mention it in your README?

If I clone a repository to investigate it and then a typo results in

	$ git lgo

emptying my $HOME directory, I would not call that a feature.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-27 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-27 15:00 [PATCH 0/2] Create a shared config file Nathan W. Panike
2010-11-25 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add support for " Nathan W. Panike
2010-11-27 16:29   ` Thiago Farina
2010-11-25 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] Document toplevel gitconfig file Nathan W. Panike
2010-11-27 15:52   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-27 16:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] Create a shared config file Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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