From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:52:35 GMT
Subject: Re: ~/.git/config ?
Message-ID: <200605271252.k4RCqZhR003192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <torvalds@osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 
> > ~/.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.

Yep.

[...]

> So they would do "alias cvs git" in a desperate attempt to save themselves 
> from CVS, and then add
> 
> 	[alias "co"]
> 		cmd = commit -a

I don't like this syntax. What other stuff (beside "cmd") would be under
"[alias "co"]? Why not simply:

        [alias]
		co = commit -a
		publish = push public.site.com:/pub/scm/my-public-repo
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