Re: [PATCH 2/2] repo-config: learn the flag "--no-local"

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Jun 8, 2006, 16:36 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <7v1wtzaa26.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:25:53 -0700 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> The wording "--no-local" means you are looking at things
> relative to a particular repository.  I.e. some configuration
> variables come from repository-local file, and others from
> somewhere else.  But I do not think that somewhere else is
> "global".  We are reading from $HOME, which is different
> depending on who is interacting with that same repository.  So I
> would probably call the other one "--user" or something if I
> were force to pick name.

--user or --home makes a lot of sense. Alternatively you could just be explicit: --config=~ or --config=/etc/gitconfig where /.gitconfig is automatically appended to the path if it ends in a directory name.

Sean