Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Is this really necessary? >> >> I personally think distro people (or anybody who configures git >> for system-wide deployment for that matter) already has Makefile >> wrapper (a la debian/rules) to take care of this and other >> issues. > > So did I. Then I noticed (while stracing git to diagnose the issue with > git-add searching the whole working copy for .gitignore files) that the > Debian-packaged git looked for /usr/etc/gitconfig. See > <http://bugs.debian.org/420675>. Apparently few enough people use > /etc/gitconfig that nobody noticed and reported that it didn't work. :) > > Why not make the defaults more resistant to broken configuration? Hmm. It's tempting to leave this as is to gauge which distribution has more competent package maintainer and which ones have sloppy ones ;-). Sympathetic, but still not entirely convinced. - 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