Re: [PATCH 2/2] repo-config: learn the flag "--no-local"

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:42:17 +0200 (CEST)
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to know how --home tells you when this key is retreived.
> 
> I honestly don't know.  How does --user tell you when this key is 
> retrieved?

> > The admin has no business messing around with the users' configuration. 
> > And if she absolutely wants to be a BOFH, she can fire up any editor, or 
> > copy .gitconfig to /root/.gitconfig, use git-config, and copy it back, or 
> > do what she does all the time: "su <user>". But frankly, we should not 
> > support a bad work flow.
> > 
> > BTW it is the same reason I would rather not see /etc/gitconfig: it 
> > meddles with an existing configuration. If you want to give defaults, you 
> > can use a skeleton for $HOME, and templates for $GIT_DIR. As a user, I 
> > would be very surprised if the behaviour of git changed from one day to 
> > the other without my changing anything.
> 
> This seems like a rather heavy handed policy for an application to enforce.
> To my mind, these types of decisions are best left up to administrators;