From: Lanoxx Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:22:36 GMT Subject: Re: Git to use XDG Base Directory Standard Message-ID: <5035DA3C.4030404@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: On 23/08/12 04:57, David Aguilar wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: >> Lanoxx writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Git and Gitk are currently using the ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitk files in >>> the $HOME directory. It would be nice to use the XDG Base Directory >>> standard for the location instead, see [1] and [2]. Are there any >>> plans regarding this standard? >> Git does this starting at 1.7.12. See the release notes, e.g. at >> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt#L18-23 >> >> cmn > I do not recall whether gitk learned about it (I don't think so). > > Like all big sweeping changes, these were done in a > backwards-compatible way that will allow users to switch over when > they are ready. If you are interested in attacking this from the gitk > angle then you will want to follow a similar strategy. I just checked it, the code is in https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitk-git/gitk:2710 and following. Currently it still saves it to ~/.gitk-new and then renames it to ~/.gitk Unfortunately I do not know Tcl/Tk so I can't provide a patch. But if someone could provide a patch that would be really nice.