Re: Recommend these .gitconfig settings for git integrity.

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/01/2016 11:12 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I may not have noticed all the things it used to do, but the hooks it
> added were in a different category (in my book), because they did make
> a change that was "required" by Emacs's coding conventions.

autogen.sh already configured Git to do things that are not required by 
Emacs's coding conventions. For example, it configures 
diff.texinfo.xfuncname as a matter of convenience, to avoid the sorts of 
hassles Alan Mackenzie noted on this list in September, not because 
Emacs coding conventions require it.

autogen.sh should limit itself to Git settings suitable for Emacs 
developers that are not the Git default. My impression is that 
transfer.fsckObjects falls into this category, but if this is not the 
consensus of course we should change autogen.sh to stop configuring that 
particular setting. I haven't heard any argument against that particular 
setting, though.