Re: [PATCH] config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141901250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkj0pqp5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Well, I don't use it myself (other than testing that the patch does what 
> > it says). Let the list decide?
> 
> I am slightly worried about stupid distros screwing people over
> by shipping with a bad default config in /etc, which would make
> diagnosing their problems harder without knowing what they have
> there.  But other than that I do not have a problem with it.

They can do that already by shipping with a bad default /etc/skel/ directory.

Ciao, Dscho