Re: Propagating config to clones/pulls

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sep 7, 2010, 09:23 UTC
Message-ID: <201009071123.21011.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <A8F08AD5-6DB5-4A4D-9A8F-79DDBD93E666@getgosu.com>

Douglas Tan wrote:

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> 
> I have some config settings that I'll like to make default for
> anyone cloning/pulling from the central remote bare repository. I've
> tried to do this by editing the config file in the bare repository
> on the server but the change doesn't appear when cloning. How can I
> go about pushing default config settings to anyone cloing or pulling
> from the repository?

You can't, since that would open a whole range of security issues.

You can put some config defaults inside the repository itself, but it is up to your users whether they apply them. Perhaps it's best to write them as a shellscript that adds to the configuration file(s) so that it is easy to apply it later, e.g.,

  #!/bin/sh
  git config diff.jpg.textconv exiftool
  cat >> .gitattributes <<EOF
  *.jpg diff=jpg
  EOF

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch