From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Git to use XDG Base Directory Standard
Message-ID: <871uiy8uuw.fsf@centaur.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <50355044.7040201@gmx.net>

Lanoxx <lanoxx@gmx.net> 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