Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce ~/.gitconfig

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 8, 2006, 13:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0606081532370.26823@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860606080613n5b5f6a5bs7a8f461a4188228c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Who said anything about something more than one configuration file? It's 
> nice to have a directory if we later decide to store other kinds of 
> files there as well, e.g., templates or some keyring information or 
> something else, perhaps not well-suited for storing in an ini-like file.

My point was: this has nothing to do with the "git config". Gitk, for example, has its own file there, ~/.gitk.

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> > Alternatively, we could introduce a config variable "core.globalConfig" to
> > see where the global config is.
> 
> That is a very good idea.  We wouldn't need an environment variable in
> that case.
> 
>  nikolai (who wonders if people can spot irony and sarcasm without extra 
> help)

No they can't. You almost had me falling for it...

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: I also wanted to mention that we could migrate all the config into an XML format. And maybe have an SQL backend instead of an object store.