Re: ~/.git/config ?

Timo Hirvonen wrote:

Anand Kumria [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi,

git is unable to construct a reasonable default email address in my
current environment.  So, I use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
to override things.

This has worked well but, now, I need to vary the email address for some
repositories.  Unfortunately the environment variables override
.git/config.

It would be good if things were like:
     - try to construct one automagically
     - use ~/.git/config (if available)
     - use .git/config
     - use environment variables

That way I could set my default email address in ~/.git/config and
override it as required for those repositories that need it.

I backup my $HOME using git, so there's a .git directory in ~.  I don't
think a global config file is really needed but it would be nice if
.git/config would override the environment variables, not the other way
around.

Well, I'm not sure if environmental variables overriding wouldn't make
invocations like 'GIT_DIR=something git command' possible.

There are templates, also for config. Currently git lacks user (not
repository) config file, e.g. ~/.gitconfig (common for all repositories).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland