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From: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:38:43 +0000
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.  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?) on the repository.  The only problem is that I have no clue how
> to implement this: I'm currently thinking a special remote ref?

I handle these kinds of configuration tasks out of band using mr,
and it works pretty well:

  https://github.com/aspiers/mr-config/#readme
  https://github.com/aspiers/mr-config/blob/master/sh.d/git-remotes

Food for thought ...