Re: [PATCH] build: add default configuration

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Sep 18, 2013, 18:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s35_emnh9Kce433oy1JW66xB2vaN5f5OO7VF1XqoO=YGQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e8ccfba3-5198-4986-9b9d-1d69b965386f.maildroid@localhost>

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Aguilar <davvid-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Apologies for top post -- anybody have a recommendation for a better app then maildroid?
>
> Will this not conflict with folks that supply their own gitconfig?

You mean people that provide their own ETC_GITCONFIG? If you mean distributions, their packaging would override /etc/gitconfig, if you mean people that have already a /etc/gitconfig, packaging systems usually save the old one so they can solve the conflict manually (e.g. /etc/gitconfig.pacsave). So no, it would not conflict. If you mean people that have ~/.gitconfig, then absolutely not, because that one takes precedence.

Alternatively, we could have a higher level configuration file (e.g. /usr/share/git/config), but I think that's overkill.

> I like the idea. Docs?  Also, should this not be done in the C side so that we don't waste time reading the config, and also prevent users from overriding these?

But we want them to be easily readable, and possibly allow distributions to easily modify them.

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Felipe Contreras

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