Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:26:07AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I'd _really_ prefer to not have any preferences or other metadata files
> > > under version control within that same project.
> >
> > Don't you think that would be a per-project decision? Is it
> > acceptable if I make sure that .gitinfo/* is _optional_ and
> > things do not break for projects that do not use it?
>
> It can't be a per-project decision, since the preferences are
> per-developer.
>
> In other words, if it's per-project, then that implies that every single
> developer has to agree on the same thing. Which just not possible - it
> makes no sense.
Some example of possible per-project settings:
pre-commit hook killing trailing whitespaces
global per-project ignore file (*.ko or something)
common base commit template
(standardized form developer fills in when committing,
some remindments in the comment section, ...)
Obviously, you still ought to have a way to locally override any of
those per-repository in your .git/conf/.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone. -- Alan Cox
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