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From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git should not use a default user.email config value
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:01:03 +1000
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On 12 August 2013 22:39, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> We could do something like the patch below, which allows:
>
>   $ git config --global include./magic/.path .gitconfig-magic
>
> to read ~/.gitconfig-magic only when we are in a repository with a
> directory component "/magic/".

Thanks, this looks great! I'll have a play with it tomorrow.

Would locally configured config options override this one? From a
quick read of the patch there doesn't look like there is a way of
turning this off for a specific repository, but perhaps that is
unnecessary. I think after a bit of use the edge cases will be a bit
clearer.

Again thanks, this will scratch an itch I didn't even realise I had.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill