I always wondered why git doesn't support hierarchic config locations… My homedir looks like this: ~/code-repositories/ +---$company/ (my work related r

I always wondered why git doesn't support hierarchic config locations… My homedir looks like this: ~/code-repositories/ +---$company/ (my work related repositories) +---private/ (my personal non-public repos) +---public/ (my clones of public FLOSS repos) So I'd simply like to drop a `.gitconfig` with the default user for all repos below this location into each of those 3 directories, but instead I have to make sure for every freshly clone/initiated repo to configure the author etc.