From: David Aguilar Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:25:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 4/4] Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vipf1aty2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Aguilar writes: > >> I'm all for this change too. > > Do you mean just the general direction, or including the > implementation? General direction, including the backwards-compatibility concerns described in the commit message. >> I did a little research RE: the OSX and Windows question. >> >> glib makes no differentiation between OSX and Linux, >> but Windows does have its own #ifdef. >> >> http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gutils.c#n1251 >> >> I certainly don't think this should affect this series, >> I'm just noting it as something that the Windows folks might >> care about.  Perhaps something for compat/ in the future? >> >> The downside to doing the same as glib is more documentation. >> The upside is... consistency? > > Probably.  I think we should follow whatever existing and prevalent > practice is, and my gut feeling is that we would end up first doing > POSIX only thing in my tree, and msysgit folks will quickly feed me > updates to tweak the behaviour to match what of Windows version. That sounds good to me. Thanks, -- David