On Wednesday 2007 February 14 16:30, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Site-wide configuration for options that are potentially > compatibility-breaking is a bad idea on a multi-user machines, > and it was certainly the case back when our machines hosted many > diverse set of people. Isn't it more likely that on a multi-user machine all users are sharing one install of git - in which case you do want the upgrade of facilities to be system-wide. Otherwise you have to tell every user to edit their .gitconfig to enable the new facilities - users shouldn't have to care about that sort of thing, that's what admins are for. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Feb 15 21:19:55 2007
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