From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 19:35:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <20120525193507.GA5184@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <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