Re: [PATCH 0/2] apply.c: a fix and an enhancement

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 22, 2005, 23:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20050722233903.GQ11916@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507221619450.6074@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:26:07AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I'd _really_ prefer to not have any preferences or other metadata files
> > > under version control within that same project.
> > 
> > Don't you think that would be a per-project decision?  Is it
> > acceptable if I make sure that .gitinfo/* is _optional_ and
> > things do not break for projects that do not use it?
> 
> It can't be a per-project decision, since the preferences are 
> per-developer.
> 
> In other words, if it's per-project, then that implies that every single 
> developer has to agree on the same thing. Which just not possible - it 
> makes no sense.

Some example of possible per-project settings:

	pre-commit hook killing trailing whitespaces
	global per-project ignore file (*.ko or something)
	common base commit template
		(standardized form developer fills in when committing,
		 some remindments in the comment section, ...)

Obviously, you still ought to have a way to locally override any of those per-repository in your .git/conf/.

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