From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 22:10:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
Message-ID: <o2l32541b131005071510x492269dz84e9cc35bfa04942@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BE48F84.3050200@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:09 PM, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>>    cp .gitconfig .git/config
>>
>> Perfectly valid.  Copying the other way might (or might not) result in
>> invalid options in .gitconfig, which probably ought to be warned
>> about.  But the syntax is obviously identical.
>
> Which one takes precedence? I *MUST* be able to override a distributed
> .gitconfig/.gitparams/.gitparameters file.

Yes, absolutely.  As Linus said, the in-project file is lower priority
than your .git/config and ~/.gitconfig files.

Avery