From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 18:13:55 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig Message-ID: <7v4nr4t9gc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Hilco Wijbenga writes: > 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.). As long as we make sure we have knobs for distro packagers and people building from the source to twist so that they can easily name the places they want us to read from and write to, what we decide in-tree does not matter. We default to ~/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig as before, and that is perfectly fine. We already have ETC_GITCONFIG, so the only thing it might be nicer to add is the build configurability of ~/.gitconfig file, no?