From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:35:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce ~/.gitconfig Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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. > > 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.