Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > Setting autocrlf for every repository limits the user's options to > > > override the default. > > > > Then maybe a way for the user to override the global templates is what we > > need? I can see that this would be useful outside of the crlf issue. > > I do not think we need this. autocrlf is a configurable variable and we > already have a mechanism for the user to override configuration > variables. The user can use "git config --global ..." to sets his > preferences. This mechanism is well established. I do not see a reason > not to use it. The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ setups (as Junio pointed out). Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not desirable. And if we go the route via templates, $HOME/.gitconfig will do no good, as the configuration in the repository trumps the --global configuration. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
