Re: [PATCH] Add a --user option to git-config

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Ramsay Jones wrote:

quoted

At present, the --global option is something of a misnomer, so
we introduce the --user option as a synonym, with the intention
of removing the old option in the future.

Ack for the intention, except for "removing the old option in the future".  
We do not need to advertise it, but breaking existing functionality, which 
might be used by scripts and aliases is bad.

Yep, which is why I made it a synonym; git-gui uses the --global option, for
example, and I'm confident that other (user) scripts use it too. The "future"
I had in mind was something like 1 year down the road, but it could be longer
(or forever) if necessary.

Ramsay Jones