From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Baumann Subject: Re: /etc/gitconfig Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:30:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200702140909.28369.andyparkins@gmail.com> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 14 11:28:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHHN5-0002jA-Nn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:28:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751534AbXBNK2I (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:28:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751538AbXBNK2I (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:28:08 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:32824 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751534AbXBNK2H (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:28:07 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HHHMi-0000VK-VP for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:27:57 +0100 Received: from p54aa85ed.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.170.133.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:27:56 +0100 Received: from siprbaum by p54aa85ed.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:27:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54aa85ed.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andy Parkins schrieb: > Hello > > With the release of 1.5.0 I added legacyheaders=false and > usedelatbaseoffset=true to my repositories. > > While doing that though, it felt wrong to be editing every single config. Is > there a justification for having three config files? > > /etc/gitconfig > $HOME/.gitconfig > $GIT_DIR/config > > With /etc/gitconfig coming in at lowest priority? > > Andy I would like this, too. This would allow me to set e.g. "diff.color = auto" for everyone one a machine. We use git there to only manage some config files and several simple perl scripts. As it is mostly myself who does the editing, ~/.gitconfig works for *ME*. But I'd like to set this globally so that my colluagues which don't have much clue about git don't need to bother about config settings. And yes, editing every single repo doesn't seem like an elegant solution. -Peter