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Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 25, 2012, 19:35 UTC
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<20120525193507.GA5184@burratino>
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<vpqvcjknjo0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Matthieu Moy wrote:
> That's another good thing with XDG (~/.config Vs ~/.cache/ for example),
> but I don't think Git would have anything user-wide that would not be
> configuration.

Of course, but your home directory that you read with "ls -A" does. Putting configuration in ~/.config makes it easier to find amid all that noise.

That said, as Junio wrote before[1]:
> It is not _too_ bad to treat ~/.gitconfig specially and support reading
> from ~/.$SOMEGITTTYNAME/{excludes,attributes} files.

That's what vim does --- its main configuration file is ~/.vimrc, and there are also some supporting files in ~/.config/vim/.

Wouldn't that be a good place to start?
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133343/focus=135921
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Message 21 of 26 in “[RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig”
  1. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frMay 25, 2012
  2. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  4. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  5. Hilco WijbengaMay 25, 2012
  6. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  7. Hilco WijbengaMay 25, 2012
  8. config doc: remove confusion about relative GIT_DIR from FILES sectionJonathan Nieder, May 25, 2012
  9. Jeff KingMay 25, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  11. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  12. Jeff KingMay 25, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  14. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  16. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  18. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  19. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  20. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  21. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  23. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  24. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  25. Felipe ContrerasMay 26, 2012
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