From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:44:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config
Message-ID: <46B2340D.4080109@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm1b3y3w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>>> Yep, which is why I made it a synonym; git-gui uses the
>>> --global option, for example, and I'm confident that other
>>> (user) scripts use it too. The "future" I had in mind was
>>> something like 1 year down the road, but it could be longer
>>> (or forever) if necessary.
>> Please read my reply as "I vote against ever removing the --global 
>> option".
> 
> I would say with --system present, I do not see much point
> having the new alias --user either.  Get used to it.  It is
> global across the repositories you have control over.
> 

OK

ATB,

Ramsay Jones