From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:07:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Intricacies of submodules [was: Migrating svn to git with heavy use of externals]
Message-ID: <46dff0320804100907w5240b79bga3acad9fb8ecb353@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6CFA8EC2-FEE0-4746-A4F6-45082734FEEC@sun.com>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Junio!
>

>      * Has an idea of having a regular file (subject to having history,
> etc.)
>        called something like .gitconfig at the top level of Git's repository
> ever
>        been considered (implemented?). That way you a repository maintainer
>        would be able to force a particular set of settings on all of its
> clones
>        yet clones will be able to override then in .git/config if needed.
>

I like this idea, it's another common/special requirement just like
.gitignore vs. $GIT_DIR/info/exclude.



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Ping Yin