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From: Moe <moe@signalbeam.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the GIT_CONFIG_EXTRA environment variable
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:38:59 +0100
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Moe wrote:
> 
>> What we do is, we put our entire runtime environment [for a web 
>> application] under a dedicated user and under version control. This is a 
>> very comfortable way to maintain an identical environment across the 
>> board, we even deploy this way to our production servers by the means of 
>> a git pull on a dedicated branch.
> 
> Just ignoring the fact that you version control a version controlled 
> directory (including the repository), which is inefficient, and even 
> further ignoring the fact that you open the door for concurrent -- 
> incompatible -- modifications, if all you want to do is:

Neither is true.

>> In practice our developers will su or ssh to this user to get working 
>> and generally they need only a very small set of divertions from the 
>> common configuration - such as their personal git identity and their 
>> preferred editor settings.
> 
> ... then I suggest reading up on GIT_EDITOR, GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT and 
> GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, and leaving the $HOME/.gitconfig alone.

Thanks, that solved my problem.
Seems I started by asking the wrong question.