On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:08:48PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > For everyday interactive configuration editing, config files have some > good advantages: > > - The settings are easy to read, well organized, and all in one place > - The file can include comments. I'm convinced, although the settings are in at least three places (--system, --global, and --local). Throwing in the XDG stuff stirs up the file locations, but it's probably safe to assume (at the moment), that anyone going that route knows what they're doing ;). If we just assume `.git/config` and `~/.gitconfig` we should be pretty safeā€¦ -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy