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Re: Git to use XDG Base Directory Standard

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Aug 22, 2012, 21:44 UTC
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Lanoxx <lanoxx@gmx.net> writes:
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> 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
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