Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 07:54:06PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Having a $GIT_WORKTREE/.gitconfig file would be very nice, but raises a
> lot of security issues, so it's a much larger project (define which
> configuration values are allowed there, possibly take them into account
> at clone time, i.e. before checking out the files, and so on). Most
> likely out of the scope of my students' project ;-).

Yes, I have proposed it in multiple forms, and the discussion always
ends in "gross, it's too complex".

If you really want to do it, the recommended way at this point is:

  # review for any issues (1)
  less .gitconfig

  # assuming it's OK, copy into place (2)
  cp .gitconfig .git/config-from-upstream

  # include it
  git config include.path config-from-upstream

And then repeat steps (1) and (2) whenever you want to update from
upstream. That fixes not only the security issues, but also means that
you won't accidentally drop back to some antique bogus config when you
"git checkout $some_old_version".

-Peff