Petr Onderka <gsvick@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide in ~/.giattributes > and $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes files, respectively. This way, settings > for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's > repositories. The feature is definitely useful, and I'll use it as soon as it gets into git.git ;-). One point: we need to make sure the choice for the the user-wide filename is the right one, since it's a pain to change it later. We already have ~/.gitconfig, which often points to ~/.gitexcludes or ~/.gitignored (but this filename is specified with a config variable, for which we didn't manage to agree on a default value). We're about to add ~/.gitattributes. That makes 3 ~/.git* files, and I think it's time to make it a directory (similar to $GIT_DIR/info/) I think it should be done like this: 1) Default core.excludesfile to $CONF/exclude 2) Make your user-wide gitattribute $CONF/attributes 3) Optionally, read $CONF/config as well as ~/.gitconfig so that people can have all their git configuration in the same directory. Now, we need to agree on $CONF. Some non-options are: * CONF=~/.gitconfig would clash with the file ~/.gitconfig * CONF=~/.git would prevent people from versionning their $HOME. I'd be in favor of following the freedesktop standard (roughly, defaulting to ~/.config/git): http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html because other applications start using it, and it allows one to easily keep the configuration in a (typically git-versionned) ~/.config directory. And if we are to choose a config directory, it doesn't harm to chose one consistant with other applications and with a standard. I never got time to implement this. If you're willing to do something like that, that would be great. If not, I'd suggest having a config variable to point to the user-wide gitattributes file (without a default value), because it allows a future transition by giving a default value to the variable. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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