From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87ip5otybp.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Git List To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 19 11:04:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7k3V-0003wT-8O for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:04:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758247Ab3BSKDo (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:03:44 -0500 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:40736 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757087Ab3BSKDn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:03:43 -0500 Received: from CAS10.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.210) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:36 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by cas10.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.210) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:55:23 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra 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