Re: ~/.git/config ?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 27, 2006, 02:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20060527025750.GM11941@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1148697382.5599.1.camel@dv>

Dear diary, on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:36:22AM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> said that...

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> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:38 +0200, Petr Baudis 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. :-)
> 
> No, make it .gitrc for compatibility with .cvsrc, .lynxrc and others.

~/.gitrc might get useful for actually doing what ~/.cvsrc or ~/.cgrc does, that is providing default options for git commands. ~/.gitconfig would just give you per-user defaults for the repository config file.

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