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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:12:16 -0800
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Well, I don't use it myself (other than testing that the patch does what 
>> > it says). Let the list decide?
>> 
>> I am slightly worried about stupid distros screwing people over
>> by shipping with a bad default config in /etc, which would make
>> diagnosing their problems harder without knowing what they have
>> there.  But other than that I do not have a problem with it.
>
> They can do that already by shipping with a bad default /etc/skel/ 
> directory.

That's slightly different.  I can ask "Do you have anything
special in your $HOME/.gitconfig?"  Now I have to ask two
questions (and I would not know if a particular distro compiled
git to use /etc/git/default.config or /etc/gitconfig or whatever).