Hi, On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:01:54AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > > > > > We already have templates for different hooks, info/exclude, etc. > > > So, instead of placing autocrlf in /etc/gitconfig, you should place > > > this variable to /usr/share/git/templates/config and this file > > > should be copied by git init or git clone as any other file in > > > templates. > > > > I thought we discussed that already? And the consensus was that this > > does not allow for per-user overriding. > > I am sorry I missed this discussion. In this case, I believe that the > idea of templates should be extended, so any user may have his/her own > templates in $HOME/.gittemplates. IMHO, it makes much more sense than > making an exception for autocrlf in builtin-init-db.c and breaking > existing repositories... I think I actually suggested something like that. But that gets only even more complicated: if you have a template for .git/config in $HOME/.gittemplates/, then the global template will be _disregarded_, even if the administrator puts something vital in there. Maybe the best idea would be an "init" hook, settable from the config, after all. Ciao, Dscho
