From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:42:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <20120525174237.GA4267@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi0eY2=eNzuTUVGmHuvfGWvxoXSJUADWr0CfPpVe5ktxow@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Hilco,

Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> This is, of course, highly OS dependent. Ironically, I'd say we need a
> setting in .gitconfig for it. :-)
>
> There is also /etc(/default|/sysconfig|)/git/config to consider
> (perhaps for some settings that should be the same for everyone).
> Better yet, it would be nice if at least some settings could be part
> of the repository itself (whitespace handling e.g.).

The FILES section of git-config(1) might leave you happier. :)

Regarding $GIT_DIR/config, it says "The filename is of course relative
to the repository root, not the working directory.".  Is this out of
date?  (Cc-ing Peff and Duy.)

Jonathan