Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Feb 20, 2015, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <1424427763.30155.28.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqwq3cdhhe.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On vr, 2015-02-20 at 11:06 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> The ~/.git-credential-cache may be a bit harder, but the case of
> ~/.git-credentials should follow the same pattern as files for which
> this is already done. So, doing it by mimicking existing code
> shouldn't
> be too hard.
> 
> But maybe that's me being optimistic ;-)

Having just copied that logic to one of my tools, I reaclly would have fount if useful to have something that, given a config file name tells you where it should be, maybe in the resident kitchen-sink that is rev-parse:

$ git rev-parse --config git /home/dennis/.gitconfig $ git rev-parse --config gitk /home/dennis/.gitk $ git rev-parse --config foobar /home/dennis/.foobar

Or, when XDG config files are used:

$ git rev-parse --config gitk /home/dennis/.config/git/gitk $ git rev-parse --config git /home/dennis/.config/git/config $ git rev-parse --config foobar /home/dennis/.config/git/foobar

So, ~/.$filename or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/filename, with a special case only for git itself, with consistent selection of which to use (currently gitk and git are inconsistent).

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Dennis Kaarsemaker
http://www.kaarsemaker.net