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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit]
 autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:05:59 +0100 (CET)
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>, tormod.hystad@gmail.com,
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Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Setting autocrlf for every repository limits the user's options to
> > > override the default.
> > 
> > Then maybe a way for the user to override the global templates is what we 
> > need?  I can see that this would be useful outside of the crlf issue.
> 
> I do not think we need this.  autocrlf is a configurable variable and we 
> already have a mechanism for the user to override configuration 
> variables.  The user can use "git config --global ..." to sets his 
> preferences.  This mechanism is well established.  I do not see a reason 
> not to use it.

The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ setups 
(as Junio pointed out).  Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not desirable.

And if we go the route via templates, $HOME/.gitconfig will do no good, as 
the configuration in the repository trumps the --global configuration.

Ciao,
Dscho