Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-15 Thread Michael J Gruber
Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 14.02.2013 19:03: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> But the exact location of per-user and per-repository configuration >>> files does not matter in this context and is best left to the >>> git-config documentation. >> >> I'm OK with you

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> But the exact location of per-user and per-repository configuration >> files does not matter in this context and is best left to the >> git-config documentation. > > I'm OK with your version. I already queued your original with one s/not/now/;

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano writes: > But the exact location of per-user and per-repository configuration > files does not matter in this context and is best left to the > git-config documentation. I'm OK with your version. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy writes: > If the XDG config file ever become the default, then sure, it will have > to be promoted instead of ~/.gitconfig in git.txt (and I'll be all for > it when it's time, even though I can foresee a few flamewars ;-) ), but > I don't think we should do that now. We are giving a

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy writes: > The old Git version where it appeared is not useful only to historians, > not to normal users. That statement cannot be generally true, unless the "old" is really old and no longer relevant but 0.99.9 is sufficiently old so the value of the part of the message you removed

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Matthieu Moy
Michael J Gruber writes: > Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 14.02.2013 16:36: >> The old Git version where it appeared is not useful only to historians, >> not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo > > I do not think you meant to not remove so many nots ;) The first wa

Re: [PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Michael J Gruber
Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 14.02.2013 16:36: > The old Git version where it appeared is not useful only to historians, > not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo I do not think you meant to not remove so many nots ;) Besides, if history is uninteresting, then so

[PATCH] git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism

2013-02-14 Thread Matthieu Moy
The old Git version where it appeared is not useful only to historians, not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo config file, so add a mention of ~/.gitconfig. Describing in details the system-wide, XDG and all would be counter-productive here, so reword the description