Dear diary, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:05:26PM CEST, I got a letter where Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@xxxxxxxxx> said that... > > > 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>" Except that this just sets the environment variables for you. :-) Now, you could do some really funny stuff with overriding the environment variables at git commit's entry point with .git/config stuff, then possibly setting them again in case --author was passed, but I seriously think such a confusion is not worth it. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. - : 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