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

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Jun 8, 2006, 20:30 UTC
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:24:31 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> I think --user makes more sense than --home, since it does not matter 
> _where_ it is stored, but _when_ it is retreived.
--home seems more natural to me for some reason but I don't feel strongly
about it.
 
> In the same vein, I do not think it is user friendly to expect the user to 
> remember if it was .gitconfig, .git or .gitrc.

Sure, was just thinking that this could be used by an administrator to modify _other_ users' configs.. but probably not worth it.

Cheers, Sean

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