From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:15:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Rummage through ~/.gitrc as well as the repository's config.
Message-ID: <7vacd7c4bm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060203203332.2718.13451.stgit@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:

> I'm fed up of setting user.email in every repository I own.

That is what --template-dir to init-db is for (it works in an
already initialized git repository, but it does not overwrite
files).

> I want to put this somewhere central, and I shouldn't have to
> log in again to make it take effect.

I do not understand about logging in again.  If you are talking
about environment variables, ". ~/.env" would work nicely.