On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:42:17 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to know how --home tells you when this key is retreived. I honestly don't know. How does --user tell you when this key is retrieved? > The admin has no business messing around with the users' configuration. > And if she absolutely wants to be a BOFH, she can fire up any editor, or > copy .gitconfig to /root/.gitconfig, use git-config, and copy it back, or > do what she does all the time: "su <user>". But frankly, we should not > support a bad work flow. > > BTW it is the same reason I would rather not see /etc/gitconfig: it > meddles with an existing configuration. If you want to give defaults, you > can use a skeleton for $HOME, and templates for $GIT_DIR. As a user, I > would be very surprised if the behaviour of git changed from one day to > the other without my changing anything. This seems like a rather heavy handed policy for an application to enforce. To my mind, these types of decisions are best left up to administrators; obviously we can't guess all the creative ways git will be used beforehand. 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