From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:29:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*
Message-ID: <7vr6eolv0r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1204744684-2043-1-git-send-email-sbejar@gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:

> +user.default::
> +	If false the defaults values for user.email and user.name are not
> +	used. Useful when you want a different email/name for each
> +	repository, normally set in the global config file.
> +

Aren't there other configuration variables that you might want
to tweak per repository?

Perhaps you can make git-init run a post-init hook script by
default, and have ~/.gitconfig specify the location of it, and
have it do whatever custom settings to the per-repository
configuration file?

Wouldn't that be a more generally useful thing to do, instead of
adding special-purpose configuration variables like this?

If we go that alternate route, I would imagine that we would
need to add "--no-post-init" flag to git-init (and probably an
environment GIT_NO_POST_INIT) so that git-clone and others that
run git-init internally can disable the hook if they want to.