From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 18:58:28 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig Message-ID: <7vobpcrstn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120525184408.GA4740@burratino> Jonathan Nieder writes: >> 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?