Hi, On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Sean wrote: > 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. I think --user makes more sense than --home, since it does not matter _where_ it is stored, but _when_ it is retreived. In the same vein, I do not think it is user friendly to expect the user to remember if it was .gitconfig, .git or .gitrc. Ciao, Dscho - : 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