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Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 19, 2013, 10:03 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> I have this itch where I want to share my remotes config between
> machines.  In my fork, I should be able to specify where my upstream
> sources are, so remotes get set up automatically when I clone.

Note that you need to carefully pick only certain bits of the config, as otherwise there are big security headaches.

> There are also other things in .git/config that would be nice to
> share, like whether to do a --word-diff (why isn't it a configuration
> variable yet?)
Because that would break pretty much every script that uses git-diff?
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 19, 2013
  2. Thomas RastFeb 19, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 19, 2013
  4. Thomas RastFeb 19, 2013
  5. Duy NguyenFeb 19, 2013
  6. Jeff KingFeb 19, 2013
  7. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 11, 2013
  8. Jeff KingMar 12, 2013
  9. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 18, 2013
  10. Jeff KingMar 18, 2013
  11. Adam SpiersFeb 19, 2013

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