Timo Hirvonen wrote: > Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> git is unable to construct a reasonable default email address in my >> current environment. So, I use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL >> to override things. >> >> This has worked well but, now, I need to vary the email address for some >> repositories. Unfortunately the environment variables override >> .git/config. >> >> It would be good if things were like: >> - try to construct one automagically >> - use ~/.git/config (if available) >> - use .git/config >> - use environment variables >> >> That way I could set my default email address in ~/.git/config and >> override it as required for those repositories that need it. > > I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~. I don't > think a global config file is really needed but it would be nice if > .git/config would override the environment variables, not the other way > around. Well, I'm not sure if environmental variables overriding wouldn't make invocations like 'GIT_DIR=something git command' possible. There are templates, also for config. Currently git lacks user (not repository) config file, e.g. ~/.gitconfig (common for all repositories). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html