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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 12:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702151302540.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvei3d5n5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Okay for GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG. I do not remember off-hand who wanted it 
> > (Jakub? Pasky?), but it was in the context of gitweb.
> >
> > However, GIT_CONFIG is meant to parse arbitrary config files.
> > ...
> > But this "core.*" stuff is insane. Please no.
> 
> Ok, Eric's example and yours made it clear that GIT_CONFIG is an
> interface meant to reuse (or abuse) git-config to read some file
> that is not at all related to git, and should never be used by
> other plumbing.  As long as that is clear (could we have that in
> the documentation, by the way, please?), I have no problem with
> that.

I am no particularly good with documentation, but the good people who wanted this feature in the first place are.

> I mildly disagree with you on having an ability to disable
> /etc/gitconfig.

I'm okay either way. But I thought /etc/gitconfig was not so much like /etc/skel/, but more like /etc/profile.

> I've queued that insane "core.*" stuff in 'pu' and pushed out,
> but I'll drop that topic altogether.  But before doing that,
> it's past my bedtime ;-).

Hey, take it easy, now that Git "snog" is out!

Ciao, Dscho