Remove defunct .gitconfig file #2078
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not actually used by git, see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config and https://stackoverflow.com/q/18329621
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.gitconfigis not actually used by git unless manually configured to do so. The repo-specific git config is located in.git/config. The only.gitconfigfile read by git is the one in the user home directory. Seegit configdocs and the answers to this stackoverflow question.I believe it is misleading to have this file in the repo as it implies the config is automatically applied. I for one have wasted a lot of time trying to fix the
.gitconfigfile before I realized this and came up with #2077 instead.If I am mistaken and the
.gitconfigfile represents recommendations for contributors or similar then I strongly recommend to have this reflected somewhere in the docs, or noted as a comment in the defunct.gitconfigfile.