From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:03:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config
Message-ID: <87ip5otybp.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0npW6TLdMNd5_zw-RAB0bjF9DDoyAVSx4Zx=7AmvdEo3w@mail.gmail.com>

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