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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfy98snus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141246160.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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

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> The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig,
> which in turn can be overridden in .git/config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
> ...
> 	Voilà.

I knew this can be done, and you are capable of doing this, but I was wondering if it is a good thing to do in the first place.

Site-wide configuration for options that are potentially compatibility-breaking is a bad idea on a multi-user machines, and it was certainly the case back when our machines hosted many diverse set of people.

But these days many machines are practically single-user and many more are owned by a single group/project that share the same policy. So in such a setting, /etc/gitconfig might not be too bad.