Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:33:25PM CEST, I got a letter > where Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@xxxxxxxxx> said that... > > I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~. > > Then it should be called ~/.gitconfig. :-) I just wanted to point the fact that ~/.git/ could not be used :) > > 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. > > Then you have no other way to override .git/config e.g. when committing > patches submitted by other people. git commit --author "name <email>" -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/ - : 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