From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:30:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig Message-ID: <7vfy98snus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig, > which in turn can be overridden in .git/config. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > ... > 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.