From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:05:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231404390.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231326290.11994@cougar>

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Setting autocrlf for every repository limits the user's options to
> > > override the default.
> > 
> > Then maybe a way for the user to override the global templates is what we 
> > need?  I can see that this would be useful outside of the crlf issue.
> 
> I do not think we need this.  autocrlf is a configurable variable and we 
> already have a mechanism for the user to override configuration 
> variables.  The user can use "git config --global ..." to sets his 
> preferences.  This mechanism is well established.  I do not see a reason 
> not to use it.

The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ setups 
(as Junio pointed out).  Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not desirable.

And if we go the route via templates, $HOME/.gitconfig will do no good, as 
the configuration in the repository trumps the --global configuration.

Ciao,
Dscho