Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

From: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 14:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE-at6jJZGV-3H4jEZhAsid41oqcQtEmad+5rwRhYiFUpQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0npW6TLdMNd5_zw-RAB0bjF9DDoyAVSx4Zx=7AmvdEo3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:25 AM, 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?

I handle these kinds of configuration tasks out of band using mr, and it works pretty well:

  https://github.com/aspiers/mr-config/#readme
  https://github.com/aspiers/mr-config/blob/master/sh.d/git-remotes

Food for thought ...