From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 19:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <20120525191701.GA4944@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vobpcrstn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Why is it bad to keep using ~/.gitconfig in the first place?  The UNIX
> convention to exclude names that begin with dot is not working for you?

Ok, now you're making more sense. :)

I don't think anyone was proposing dropping support for .gitconfig.
But:

Any patch to add support for ~/.config/git should of course take care
to include a rationale that answers this question.  (I am guessing
that putting all user git configuration in one directory is part of
the goal, and separating temporary files like ~/.fontconfig/*.cache*
from configuration files like ~/.mutt/muttrc is another part.)

Ciao,
Jonathan