Repository specific config file

Hello,

Has there been any discussion or considerations adding a repository specific config file that would be delivered to all cloned repositories automatically? This would allow the publisher of the repository to set up some default settings to all developers cloning the repository. This could be useful to set up things like default aliases to ease up the work, to set that all remote branches are tracked, to list the configurations of submodules (so that people don't have to run submodule init), etc.

User should still be able to add configurations that overlap with the remote configuration and user should be able to ignore everything that came from the parent. Using ~/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig doesn't always work well when the developers don't have access to the remote machine (other than to clone the repository). Maybe the simplest solution would be to just add .gitconfig to the repository itself.

 	Pekka
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  Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
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