From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:39:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] apply.c: a fix and an enhancement Message-ID: <20050722233903.GQ11916@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:26:07AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds told me that... > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Linus Torvalds 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/. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox