Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?

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> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> > I think the documentation
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>> >     ~/.gitconfig
>> >             User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
>> >             configuration file.
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>> > should be clarified --- e.g. it could say
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>> >     $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
>> >     ~/.gitconfig
>> >             User-specific configuration files. Because options in
>> >             these files are not specific to any repository, thes
>> >             are sometimes called global configuration files.
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>> Yeah, I think that makes sense.
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>> > As for "git config --global", I think the best thing would be to split
>> > it into two options: something like "git config --user" and "git
>> > config --xdg-user".  That way, it is unambiguous which configuration
>> > file the user intends to inspect or modify.  When a user calls "git
>> > config --global" and both files exist, it could warn that the command
>> > is ambiguous.
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>> > Thoughts?
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>> I actually thought that the plan was "you either have this, or the
>> other one, never both at the same time" (and I think those who
>> pushed the XDG thing in to the system made us favor it over the
>> traditional one).  So as long as --global updates the one that
>> exists, and updates XDG one when both or neither do, I think we
>> should be OK.  And from that viewpoint, we definitely do not want
>> two kinds of --global to pretend as if we support use of both at the
>> same time.
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> note that atm $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config is read as --global iff
> ~/.gitconfig is absent and read always without --global.  So it is
> flipping between "global" and "some kind of non-global but user-specific
> configuration file" (so sounds like  a global to me ;) )
>
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