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From
AKAnand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Date
May 26, 2006, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20060526152837.GQ23852@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Hi,

git is unable to construct a reasonable default email address in my current environment. So, I use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to override things.

This has worked well but, now, I need to vary the email address for some repositories. Unfortunately the environment variables override .git/config.

It would be good if things were like:
	- try to construct one automagically
	- use ~/.git/config (if available)
	- use .git/config
	- use environment variables

That way I could set my default email address in ~/.git/config and override it as required for those repositories that need it.

Thanks, Anand

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  17. Read configuration also from ~/.gitrcPetr Baudis, May 28, 2006
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