From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:49:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add possibility to store configuration in ~/.config/git/config file
Message-ID: <20120526214904.GB29463@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpq62bjnx14.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:53:27AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen <nguyenhu@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:
> 
> > +			sprintf(config_path, "%s/.config/git/config", home);
> 
> It's not terribly important, but if we are to use something that looks
> like XDG, I'd rather have a real support for it. ~/.config/ is the
> default, but the spec
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> also define $XDG_CONFIG_HOME that may override the default and we may
> want to support $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS too.

I agree. This series is much less appealing as "put the config in some
other place" and much more appealing as "conform to an existing standard
about dot-file locations". And if we are going to follow the standard,
then we should do all parts of it.

-Peff