Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: May 7, 2010, 19:31 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005071529050.14468@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005071147460.901@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Btw, another option might be to start searching ".gitconfig", but only 
> allow a certain "safe subset" of config options in that. Things that can 
> really be about the project itself, and not per-user or per-repository.
> 
> And parse it before ~/.gitconfig and .git/config, so that people can 
> always override it.
> 
> I dunno. Looking at the config options, there really aren't a lot of them 
> that make sense on a project scale. There's a few, though. Things like
> 
> 	core.autocrlf
> 	i18n.commitEnconfig
> 
> and possibly others..

Given that only a subset of gitconfig could make sense to have distributed, I think the file should be named .gitparams to make the distinction clear.

Nicolas