From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:11:02 GMT
Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ?
Message-ID: <20060526171102.GH11941@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060526200526.d8a2f776.tihirvon@gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:05:26PM CEST, I got a letter
where Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> said that...
> > > I don't think a global config file is really needed but it would be
> > > nice if .git/config would override the environment variables, not the
> > > other way around.
> > 
> > Then you have no other way to override .git/config e.g. when committing
> > patches submitted by other people.
> 
> git commit --author "name <email>"

Except that this just sets the environment variables for you. :-)

Now, you could do some really funny stuff with overriding the
environment variables at git commit's entry point with .git/config
stuff, then possibly setting them again in case --author was passed, but
I seriously think such a confusion is not worth it.

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