Re: ~/.git/config ?

From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2006, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20060526193325.d2a530a4.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060526152837.GQ23852@progsoc.uts.edu.au>

Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote:

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> 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.

I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~. 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.

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