Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?

From: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2017, 14:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20171212141355.7hcuegaopb6hee2l@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtvww3gea.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> > I think the documentation

> > 	~/.gitconfig
> > 		User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
> > 		configuration file.

> > should be clarified --- e.g. it could say

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> > 	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
> > 	~/.gitconfig
> > 		User-specific configuration files. Because options in
> > 		these files are not specific to any repository, thes
> > 		are sometimes called global configuration files.

> Yeah, I think that makes sense.

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> > As for "git config --global", I think the best thing would be to split
> > it into two options: something like "git config --user" and "git
> > config --xdg-user".  That way, it is unambiguous which configuration
> > file the user intends to inspect or modify.  When a user calls "git
> > config --global" and both files exist, it could warn that the command
> > is ambiguous.

> > Thoughts?

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> I actually thought that the plan was "you either have this, or the
> other one, never both at the same time" (and I think those who
> pushed the XDG thing in to the system made us favor it over the
> traditional one).  So as long as --global updates the one that
> exists, and updates XDG one when both or neither do, I think we
> should be OK.  And from that viewpoint, we definitely do not want
> two kinds of --global to pretend as if we support use of both at the
> same time.

note that atm $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config is read as --global iff ~/.gitconfig is absent and read always without --global. So it is flipping between "global" and "some kind of non-global but user-specific configuration file" (so sounds like a global to me ;) )

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