From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:05:26 GMT
Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ?
Message-ID: <20060526200526.d8a2f776.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060526163829.GB10488@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

> Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:33:25PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> said that...
> > I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~.
> 
> Then it should be called ~/.gitconfig. :-)

I just wanted to point the fact that ~/.git/ could not be used :)

> > 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>"

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