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From: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature request: read git config from parent directory
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:49:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3881793.6JIRvg1BPW@ylum> (raw)

Hello

I use the same machine for work and open-source contribution. In both cases, I 
deal with a lot of repositories. Depending on whether I commit for work or 
open-source activities, I must use a different mail address. I used to setup 
work address for each work repo in git local config, but this is no longer 
practical.

Since I use different directories for work and open-source, would it be 
possible for git to read irs config also from parent directories ? I.e. setup 
git to read config from ./.git/config then ../.gitconfig, ../../gitconfig until 
global ~/.gitconfig.

All the best

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 19:49 Dominique Dumont [this message]
2016-12-09 12:38 ` Feature request: read git config from parent directory Duy Nguyen
2016-12-10 11:16   ` Dominique Dumont

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