2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15 · open the first message on its own page
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:06
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.
From: Josh Triplett <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:06
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? - Josh Triplett