From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:12:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig Message-ID: <7vd54cpq0v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin 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).