Hi, so, in guix repository we include ../etc/git/gitconfig in the .git/config. I get the motivation for that, but I wanted to raise a down side that I encountered today. I have fetched the upstream Guix and went on to merge the updates, but got a merge conflict, in the etc/git/gitconfig file.
That turned out to be somewhat unpleasant. Magit stopped working. Git command line stopped working: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ git status fatal: bad config line 10 in file .git/../etc/git/gitconfig --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Once you realize what went wrong, it is not *that* hard to fix, but it still was somewhat unpleasant surprise. Could we re-think the practice and stop the including, especially since, looking at the config file, only "important" part is the sendemail and format, and both are going away due to Codeberg anyway? The rest seems to be mostly in the "nice to have" territory. Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
