Re: Recommend these .gitconfig settings for git integrity.

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Why is the Emacs build process underhandedly changing my git
>> configuration? How doing that improves or benefits the Emacs project?
>> If those config settings are so good, why don't you spend your energies
>> on convincing the git maintainers about enabling them by default instead
>> of pretending that you know better than your users and the git
>> maintainers themselves?
>
>I would have put it a bit more softly (I don't really care about those
>settings either way), but I tend to agree with the sentiment.
>It seems odd.

Ah -- Stefan and Óscar, you might be misunderstanding?

This only changes the configuration in the current repository (your local Emacs repository).  It's not changing your ~/.gitconfig -- that is, running Emacs's autogen.sh won't suddenly affect git's behavior in other repositories on your box.  You would have to pass '--global' to cause it to take effect in your ~/.gitconfig.

Also, note that autogen.sh was *already* modifying the repository-local git config.  Search for "Configure 'git diff' hunk header format" in autogen.sh.

Best regards,
-Karl