On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:25:53 -0700 Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The wording "--no-local" means you are looking at things > relative to a particular repository. I.e. some configuration > variables come from repository-local file, and others from > somewhere else. But I do not think that somewhere else is > "global". We are reading from $HOME, which is different > depending on who is interacting with that same repository. So I > would probably call the other one "--user" or something if I > were force to pick name. --user or --home makes a lot of sense. Alternatively you could just be explicit: --config=~ or --config=/etc/gitconfig where /.gitconfig is automatically appended to the path if it ends in a directory name. Sean - : 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