From: Hilco Wijbenga Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:47:50 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120525174237.GA4267@burratino> On 25 May 2012 10:42, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Hilco, > > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> This is, of course, highly OS dependent. Ironically, I'd say we need a >> setting in .gitconfig for it. :-) >> >> There is also /etc(/default|/sysconfig|)/git/config to consider >> (perhaps for some settings that should be the same for everyone). >> Better yet, it would be nice if at least some settings could be part >> of the repository itself (whitespace handling e.g.). > > The FILES section of git-config(1) might leave you happier. :) Indeed! > Regarding $GIT_DIR/config, it says "The filename is of course relative > to the repository root, not the working directory.".  Is this out of > date?  (Cc-ing Peff and Duy.) I'm sure it's not. Somehow, I had gotten it in my head that this wasn't possible. I am going to start using this right away. :-) Thanks!