Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID: <200702151019.25409.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy98snus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 2007 February 14 16:30, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Site-wide configuration for options that are potentially
> compatibility-breaking is a bad idea on a multi-user machines,
> and it was certainly the case back when our machines hosted many
> diverse set of people.

Isn't it more likely that on a multi-user machine all users are sharing one install of git - in which case you do want the upgrade of facilities to be system-wide. Otherwise you have to tell every user to edit their .gitconfig to enable the new facilities - users shouldn't have to care about that sort of thing, that's what admins are for.

Andy

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