git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile path

From
Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2018, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20180627200743.GL20217@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqvaa4dopx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
Show 7 quoted lines
> Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> The default core.excludesfile path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
>> $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty or unset,
> 
> ... because $HOME/.config is the default value for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
> when it is unset, that is?  If so, the change makes sense.
Indeed, that's the fallback path.
Thanks,
-- 
Todd
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 4 of 4 in “gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile path”
  1. 1/2 gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile pathTodd Zullinger, Jun 27, 2018
  2. 2/2 dir.c: fix typos in core.excludesfile commentTodd Zullinger, Jun 27, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2018
  4. Todd ZullingerJun 27, 2018

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.