From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ping Yin" Subject: Re: Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals] Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:07:51 +0800 Message-ID: <46dff0320804100907w5240b79bga3acad9fb8ecb353@mail.gmail.com> References: <47F15094.5050808@et.gatech.edu> <32541b130804081306q6e06af20u794357eba9d434e@mail.gmail.com> <47FBDA77.2050402@et.gatech.edu> <32541b130804081401n743f39c9o3f016da9dee2eb92@mail.gmail.com> <8FE3B7A7-4C2D-4202-A5FC-EBC4F4670273@sun.com> <32541b130804082033q55c795b5ieaa4e120956ff030@mail.gmail.com> <49E9DCEC-8A9E-4AD7-BA58-5A40F475F2EA@sun.com> <32541b130804082334s604b62b0j82b510c331f48213@mail.gmail.com> <7vhcebcyty.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <6CFA8EC2-FEE0-4746-A4F6-45082734FEEC@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Avery Pennarun" , stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Roman Shaposhnik" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 10 18:10:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjzKS-0004eT-8s for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:08:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756559AbYDJQHz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:07:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755413AbYDJQHz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:07:55 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:6264 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756559AbYDJQHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:07:54 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so9230and.103 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:07:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=baf+yZ5yffwZ2VxIIjxcJYC/KHFt0Rdwb9cN3VtQm1Q=; b=AyGia8iaKN7N4zZBz3XyHSJhwQ/N4vDsmEhIB5QyKX9pdIr7OK0m7u1CSe4zmZvR96IDxFPKfYfSYKEf55xYjxk7sQYqvD3fAyMwrmpyWv5QfoaSDNGGL5hxDQcq5wFRBGq5hhMNW7oOXzs0lyYpgP61yIue/dOZ1kK+Le1SwKU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ByBrFgHveFVksqVDhboErlHfFogrZD0zFgbVs0GDOomkVppPf6+oeyyDmp7/5Vbn+QaUFw5iPObUuPoY9EpMtfAfOtOcHbafQFqE3Du2SeT9IXsbsCSVqsSjQ2AWULNWFFGz1njQ5vSKiGPfjzuu5noA8QzKijCas8jH4mqKZ9M= Received: by 10.100.105.15 with SMTP id d15mr3107835anc.32.1207843671976; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.32.10 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:07:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6CFA8EC2-FEE0-4746-A4F6-45082734FEEC@sun.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi Junio! > > * Has an idea of having a regular file (subject to having history, > etc.) > called something like .gitconfig at the top level of Git's repository > ever > been considered (implemented?). That way you a repository maintainer > would be able to force a particular set of settings on all of its > clones > yet clones will be able to override then in .git/config if needed. > I like this idea, it's another common/special requirement just like .gitignore vs. $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. -- Ping Yin