Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m--MbtNzGH9hNPCCLJWhv6rjF9Y=WQ4qnHUFnE61p6kw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ip5otybp.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 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.
>
> Note that you need to carefully pick only certain bits of the config, as
> otherwise there are big security headaches.

Right. So, we can just start with remotes for the moment? Ideally, there should be a way to specify which configuration options to publish.

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>> 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?)
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> Because that would break pretty much every script that uses git-diff?

diff.c already makes a differentiation between git_diff_ui_config() and git_diff_basic_config(); there are configuration options that should only be applied when the command is called interactively.