From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:05:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Propagating config to clones/pulls
Message-ID: <AANLkTikbCTRKpN7w=-xoj8uKvSV1X2U8fnhXgva=oA=8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201009071123.21011.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On 9/7/10, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Douglas Tan wrote:
>  >
>  > I have some config settings that I'll like to make default for
>  > anyone cloning/pulling from the central remote bare repository. I've
>  > tried to do this by editing the config file in the bare repository
>  > on the server but the change doesn't appear when cloning. How can I
>  > go about pushing default config settings to anyone cloing or pulling
>  > from the repository?
>
>  You can't, since that would open a whole range of security issues.
>
>  You can put some config defaults inside the repository itself, but it
>  is up to your users whether they apply them.  Perhaps it's best to
>  write them as a shellscript that adds to the configuration file(s) so
>  that it is easy to apply it later, e.g.,
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>   git config diff.jpg.textconv exiftool
>   cat >> .gitattributes <<EOF
>   *.jpg diff=jpg
>   EOF
>
>  --
>  Thomas Rast
>  trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

Also.. if you happen to have administrator access to their machines
(or if they do) then you can roll an .rpm/.deb/etc. containing an
/etc/gitconfig and install it on their machines.  That'll apply these
settings globally without them having to run a script everytime a repo
is cloned.
-- 
    David