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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438B021F.5030204@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511281359.04741.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> To allow for this, git_config() should not be hardcoded to only
> read .git/config, but perhaps a list of files in environment variable
> GIT_CONFIG_FILES.
> 

$HOME/.gitrc:$GIT_DIR/conf/*

All files could support the freestanding "include" syntax.

> For (2), git-clone should copy some files, e.g. the .git/project.conf
> or .git/info/exclude. But project config probably should be kept
> up to date among all repositories for a project, i.e. it should be
> version controlled itself, but independent from the project.
> We could use a project config head .git/refs/projectconfig for this;
> of course post-1.0 material.


It would be very nifty to have some files that can hold maintainer-like 
variables (like upstream email address for patches).

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-21 13:56 [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-21 15:44 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-21 15:57   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-21 16:25     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-21 16:34     ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-21 22:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-27 12:59 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-28  1:52   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-28  6:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-28  8:43       ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-28  9:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-28 12:59         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-28 13:11           ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2005-11-28 14:32             ` Generic configuration plumbing (Was: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform...) Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-28 15:26               ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-28 13:48           ` [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config Petr Baudis
2005-11-28 15:03             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-29  6:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-28 16:29       ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-28 13:59     ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-28 16:33       ` Johannes Schindelin

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