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Re: [PATCHv6 4/4] Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2012, 06:19 UTC
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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm all for this change too.

Do you mean just the general direction, or including the implementation?

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> I did a little research RE: the OSX and Windows question.
>
> glib makes no differentiation between OSX and Linux,
> but Windows does have its own #ifdef.
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gutils.c#n1251
>
> I certainly don't think this should affect this series,
> I'm just noting it as something that the Windows folks might
> care about.  Perhaps something for compat/ in the future?
>
> The downside to doing the same as glib is more documentation.
> The upside is... consistency?

Probably. I think we should follow whatever existing and prevalent practice is, and my gut feeling is that we would end up first doing POSIX only thing in my tree, and msysgit folks will quickly feed me updates to tweak the behaviour to match what of Windows version.

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Message 26 of 88 in “[PATCHv2] Possibility to read both from ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config”
  1. Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYENMay 30, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2012
  3. Ramsay JonesMay 31, 2012
  4. [PATCHv3] Read from XDG configuration file, not writeHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, May 31, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2012
  6. [PATCHv4] Read (but not write) from XDG configuration, XDG attributes and XDG ignore filesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 1, 2012
  7. Matthieu MoyJun 2, 2012
  8. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 2, 2012
  9. Matthieu MoyJun 2, 2012
  10. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  11. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyJun 4, 2012
  13. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012
  14. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  15. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  16. Matthieu MoyJun 4, 2012
  17. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012
  18. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  19. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  21. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2012
  22. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  23. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  24. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  25. David AguilarJun 9, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2012
  27. David AguilarJun 9, 2012
  28. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2012
  29. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  31. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  32. Ramsay JonesJun 12, 2012
  33. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  34. Erik Faye-LundJun 8, 2012
  35. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  36. Erik Faye-LundJun 8, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2012
  38. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 9, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2012
  40. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 10, 2012
  41. Erik Faye-LundJun 10, 2012
  42. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 10, 2012
  43. Erik Faye-LundJun 10, 2012
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2012
  45. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  46. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  47. Erik Faye-LundJun 11, 2012
  48. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  49. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  50. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  51. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  52. Ramsay JonesJun 14, 2012
  53. Matthieu MoyJun 21, 2012
  54. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2012
  55. 0/4 Git configuration directoryMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  56. 1/4 config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  57. Thomas RastJul 12, 2012
  58. config: fix several access(NULL) callsMatthieu Moy, Jul 12, 2012
  59. Thomas RastJul 12, 2012
  60. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2012
  61. Matthieu MoyJul 12, 2012
  62. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2012
  63. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  64. config: fix several access(NULL) callsMatthieu Moy, Jul 13, 2012
  65. Jeff KingJul 13, 2012
  66. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  67. Thomas RastJul 13, 2012
  68. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  69. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2012
  70. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  71. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  72. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  73. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  74. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  75. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  76. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  77. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  78. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2012
  79. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  80. 4/4 config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if appropriateMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  81. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  82. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  83. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2012
  84. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  85. Ramsay JonesJun 4, 2012
  86. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2012
  87. Ramsay JonesJun 12, 2012
  88. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012

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