Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Ch70gZMkT7ScY3R-FNQU4QjtUe8UhoGRzE27cH9mu0HA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0npW6TLdMNd5_zw-RAB0bjF9DDoyAVSx4Zx=7AmvdEo3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> 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.  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?) on the repository.  The only problem is that I have no clue how
> to implement this: I'm currently thinking a special remote ref?

If you check out the config file, then include.path should work. You could add include.ref to point to a ref, but you need to deal with the attached security implications. This has been proposed before (and turned down, I think).

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Duy