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Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:

> I'm fed up of setting user.email in every repository I own.

That is what --template-dir to init-db is for (it works in an
already initialized git repository, but it does not overwrite
files).

> I want to put this somewhere central, and I shouldn't have to
> log in again to make it take effect.

I do not understand about logging in again.  If you are talking
about environment variables, ". ~/.env" would work nicely.