From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:32:35 GMT
Subject: Generic configuration plumbing (Was: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform...)
Message-ID: <200511281532.36054.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <438B021F.5030204@op5.se>

On Monday 28 November 2005 14:11, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > 
> > To allow for this, git_config() should not be hardcoded to only
> > read .git/config, but perhaps a list of files in environment variable
> > GIT_CONFIG_FILES.
> > 
> 
> $HOME/.gitrc:$GIT_DIR/conf/*

Yes, perhaps with this as default...

> All files could support the freestanding "include" syntax.

Better run cpp on the config files before loading ;-)
Or provide a hook which returns the config on stdout.
The default for .git/hooks/config would be

	cat $GIT_DIR/config

Hmm... this was only meant to be a joke; but now I actually think
this is a nice idea as basic configuration mechanism of git plumbing.

Josef