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thoughts on meaningful system git settings for /etc/gitconfig?

  • Subject: thoughts on meaningful system git settings for /etc/gitconfig?
  • From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
  (i asked about this on the git mailing list, but i figured i'd take
advantage of the collective knowledge here.)

  i'm updating some of my git courseware, and i want to add to the
"git config" section some examples of git configuration that make
practical sense to add to the system-wide /etc/gitconfig file that
would make obvious sense to apply to everyone on the system.

  notwithstanding that users can, of course, override whatever they
want in /etc/gitconfig, what system git config settings have people
used that even novice users in my classes would appreciate make sense
to apply to everyone on the system?

  my initial thoughts are things like:

  * filesystem-related settings (core.protect{HFS,NTFS})
  * whitespace/EOL standardization settings for consistency
  * any proxy/ssh-related settings
  * http.* settings
  * some of the sendemail.* settings

and so on. obviously, as the admin, you can put a *ton* of git
configuration in /etc/gitconfig to inflict on the users, but i'm
curious as to actual, practical examples people have used on their
systems. thoughts?

rday

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