Hi, On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Sean wrote: > 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? If I have --user vs. --repo, then I expect the setting to be active for the user vs. the repository, respectively. > > 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; Clearly, you have not met the same administrators as I did. > obviously we can't guess all the creative ways git will be used beforehand. That is right, but is it for somebody else to decide the creative way, or for you? 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