From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:22:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Rummage through ~/.gitrc as well as the repository's config.
Message-ID: <slrndu9042.2i8.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vacd7c4bm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:
>
>> I'm fed up of setting user.email in every repository I own.
>
> That is what --template-dir to init-db is for (it works in an
> already initialized git repository, but it does not overwrite
> files).

Except that git-clone has already made a .git/config file, so it won't
be overwritten by git-init-db --template-dir.  git-init-db doesn't do
merging of config file lines, and rightly so -- it'd just get too
confusing.

>> I want to put this somewhere central, and I shouldn't have to
>> log in again to make it take effect.
>
> I do not understand about logging in again.  If you are talking
> about environment variables, ". ~/.env" would work nicely.

Argh.  In every terminal and screen window, restart Emacs, ...  Logging
out looks like the better plan.

What's the objection to a ~/.gitrc?  (If it's just new-feature
resistance, I can live with that; I'm just interested.)

-- [mdw]