Re: [PATCH] doc: clarify usage of XDG_CONFIG_HOME config file

From: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2017, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20171213142334.oy2uvkamho4whspj@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqR0C_Z5fJFdSBvzqCT=LU-mK0cdtaqJ=6TH5Ty60PQrg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Jacob Keller wrote:

> > And then "and the other files will not be read" can be dropped from
> > the first sentence of this paragraph?

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> > Yaroslav on the original thread mentioned that reading codepath
> > without --file or --global does not limit to one of the three, and
> > this section is about "If not set explicitly with `--file`", so we'd
> > need to make sure if the above is what happens in reality (or update
> > the proposed clarification to match the reality).

> I'm pretty sure it does not read XDG_CONFIG_HOME unless ~/.gitconfig
> is missing. I tried a few things, but it was 2am for me, so I may be
> mis-remembering.

It always read it for non--global

$> ( HOME=/tmp/HOME; rm -rf $HOME; mkdir -p $HOME/.config/git; echo -e "[user]\n name=home" > $HOME/.gitconfig; echo -e "[user]\n name=xdg\n name2=xdg2" > $HOME/.config/git/config; git config user.name; git config user.name2; ) home xdg2

and it doesn't read it for --global

unless ~/.gitconfig is missing

$> ( HOME=/tmp/HOME; rm -rf $HOME; mkdir -p $HOME/.config/git; echo -e "[user]\n name=xdg\n name2=xdg2" > $HOME/.config/git/config; git config --global user.name; git config --global user.name2; ) xdg xdg2

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