From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 02:57:50 GMT Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ? 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 said that... > 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 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.