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Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 25, 2012, 18:58 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> So it is exactly "I do not want ~/.gitconfig, I want ~/.config/git", no?
>>
>> That is something distro should be able to decide.
>
> Except that there is nothing distro-specific about it.  Do you really
> want the config file to have a different name depending on whether one
> is using Debian, Fedora,...
Not me personally.  But distros want to do that, it's their choice.
> Besides, with my distro package maintainer hat on, I can tell you that
> switching the config file to ~/.config/git and not reading
> ~/.gitconfig would be a complete nonstarter.

Absolutely. So don't choose to deliberately introduce backward incompatibliity. Problem solved.

Why is it bad to keep using ~/.gitconfig in the first place? The UNIX convention to exclude names that begin with dot is not working for you?

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Message 17 of 26 in “[RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig”
  1. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frMay 25, 2012
  2. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  4. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  5. Hilco WijbengaMay 25, 2012
  6. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  7. Hilco WijbengaMay 25, 2012
  8. config doc: remove confusion about relative GIT_DIR from FILES sectionJonathan Nieder, May 25, 2012
  9. Jeff KingMay 25, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  11. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  12. Jeff KingMay 25, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  14. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  16. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2012
  18. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  19. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  20. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  21. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederMay 25, 2012
  23. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  24. Matthieu MoyMay 25, 2012
  25. Felipe ContrerasMay 26, 2012
  26. Heiko VoigtMay 26, 2012

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