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Subject: Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:41:33 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>=
 wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi B=E9jar wrote:
>
>
> > Useful when you want a different email/name for each repository
>
>  I still think it would be more intuitive if you made it so that sett=
ing
>  user.* to nothing was not an error, suppressed picking values up fro=
m the
>  system, and led (if not overridden again) to the message telling you=
 how
>  to set them. Is there some reason you decided not to have that be ho=
w the
>  user triggers this behavior?

I first tried this way, but when I was writing the documentation I
found it more clean and easy if it was a separate config.

Santi