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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip5otybp.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0npW6TLdMNd5_zw-RAB0bjF9DDoyAVSx4Zx=7AmvdEo3w@mail.gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:55:23 +0530")

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between
> machines.  In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream
> sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone.

Note that you need to carefully pick only certain bits of the config, as
otherwise there are big security headaches.

> There are also other things in .git/config that would be nice to
> share, like whether to do a --word-diff (why isn't it a configuration
> variable yet?)

Because that would break pretty much every script that uses git-diff?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19  9:25 Proposal: sharing .git/config Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-19 10:03 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-02-19 10:24   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-19 10:39     ` Thomas Rast
2013-02-19 10:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-19 15:36   ` Jeff King
2013-03-11 19:31     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-12  8:53       ` Jeff King
2013-03-18  9:00         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-18 11:48           ` Jeff King
2013-02-19 14:38 ` Adam Spiers

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