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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Spam-Score: -9.09 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 129E16E253 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx0.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -9.09 X-TUID: cGzEAjwjEuQk Hello, Tomas Volf writes: [...] > I have to admit I was surprised, and not in a pleasant way. When I started > playing with Guix, I went over the etc/git/gitconfig and copied the parts I > liked into the .git/config. For some reason I do not like tools automatically > touching the .git directory, and now I have the include there (5 times). I think it's mostly surprising because Git itself doesn't provide for a way to provision sane per-project settings, which is what the build system of Guix does. -- Thanks, Maxim