Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd54cpq0v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141901250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Well, I don't use it myself (other than testing that the patch does what 
>> > it says). Let the list decide?
>> 
>> I am slightly worried about stupid distros screwing people over
>> by shipping with a bad default config in /etc, which would make
>> diagnosing their problems harder without knowing what they have
>> there.  But other than that I do not have a problem with it.
>
> They can do that already by shipping with a bad default /etc/skel/ 
> directory.

That's slightly different. I can ask "Do you have anything special in your $HOME/.gitconfig?" Now I have to ask two questions (and I would not know if a particular distro compiled git to use /etc/git/default.config or /etc/gitconfig or whatever).