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Re: [PATCHv6 4/4] Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file

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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2012, 03:48 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> wrote:

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> From: NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen <nguyenhu@ensibm.imag.fr>
>
> Git will be able to write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, a new
> configuration file following XDG specification, if:
> - this file already exists, and
> - $HOME/.gitconfig file doesn't, and
> - global option is used.
> Otherwise Git writes to $HOME/.gitconfig with global option, as usual.
> If you don't create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, there is ABSOLUTELY
> NO change. Users can use this new file ONLY if they want.
> If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
> will be used.
> Advice for users who often come back to an old version of GIT:
> you shouldn't create this file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
> ---
I'm all for this change too.
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?

Thanks, David

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>  Documentation/git-config.txt |    3 ++-
>  builtin/config.c             |    5 +----
>  t/t1306-xdg-files.sh         |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> index 7e344a2..a2b4786 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ OPTIONS
>
>  --global::
>        For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than
> -       the repository .git/config.
> +       the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
> +       if this file exists and ~/.gitconfig file doesn't.
>  +
>  For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from
>  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all available files.
> diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
> index da54fd1..e8e1c0a 100644
> --- a/builtin/config.c
> +++ b/builtin/config.c
> @@ -387,10 +387,7 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>
>                home_config_paths(&user_config, &xdg_config, "config");
>
> -               if (access(user_config, R_OK) && !access(xdg_config, R_OK) &&
> -                   (actions == ACTION_LIST ||
> -                    actions == ACTION_GET_COLOR ||
> -                    actions == ACTION_GET_COLORBOOL))
> +               if (access(user_config, R_OK) && !access(xdg_config, R_OK))
>                        given_config_file = xdg_config;
>                else if (user_config)
>                        given_config_file = user_config;
> diff --git a/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh b/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> index eb0f40b..dbf236a 100755
> --- a/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> +++ b/t/t1306-xdg-files.sh
> @@ -154,4 +154,34 @@ test_expect_success 'Checking attributes in a non-XDG global attributes file' '
>  '
>
>
> +test_expect_success 'write: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig doesn'\''t' '
> +       mkdir -p .config/git &&
> +       >.config/git/config &&
> +       rm .gitconfig &&
> +       git config --global user.name "write_config" &&
> +       echo "[user]" >expected &&
> +       echo "  name = write_config" >>expected &&
> +       test_cmp expected .config/git/config
> +'
> +
> +
> +test_expect_success 'write: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
> +       >.gitconfig &&
> +       git config --global user.name "write_gitconfig" &&
> +       echo "[user]" >expected &&
> +       echo "  name = write_gitconfig" >>expected &&
> +       test_cmp expected .gitconfig
> +'
> +
> +
> +test_expect_success 'write: ~/.config/git/ exists and config file doesn'\''t' '
> +       rm .gitconfig &&
> +       rm .config/git/config &&
> +       git config --global user.name "write_gitconfig" &&
> +       echo "[user]" >expected &&
> +       echo "  name = write_gitconfig" >>expected &&
> +       test_cmp expected .gitconfig
> +'
> +
> +
>  test_done
> --
> 1.7.8
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Message 25 of 88 in “[PATCHv2] Possibility to read both from ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config”
  1. Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYENMay 30, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2012
  3. Ramsay JonesMay 31, 2012
  4. [PATCHv3] Read from XDG configuration file, not writeHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, May 31, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2012
  6. [PATCHv4] Read (but not write) from XDG configuration, XDG attributes and XDG ignore filesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 1, 2012
  7. Matthieu MoyJun 2, 2012
  8. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 2, 2012
  9. Matthieu MoyJun 2, 2012
  10. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  11. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyJun 4, 2012
  13. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012
  14. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  15. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 3, 2012
  16. Matthieu MoyJun 4, 2012
  17. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012
  18. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  19. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  21. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2012
  22. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  23. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  24. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN, Jun 6, 2012
  25. David AguilarJun 9, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2012
  27. David AguilarJun 9, 2012
  28. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2012
  29. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  31. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  32. Ramsay JonesJun 12, 2012
  33. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  34. Erik Faye-LundJun 8, 2012
  35. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 8, 2012
  36. Erik Faye-LundJun 8, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2012
  38. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 9, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2012
  40. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 10, 2012
  41. Erik Faye-LundJun 10, 2012
  42. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 10, 2012
  43. Erik Faye-LundJun 10, 2012
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2012
  45. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  46. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 11, 2012
  47. Erik Faye-LundJun 11, 2012
  48. 1/4 Read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  49. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  50. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  51. 4/4 Write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileHuynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Jun 12, 2012
  52. Ramsay JonesJun 14, 2012
  53. Matthieu MoyJun 21, 2012
  54. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2012
  55. 0/4 Git configuration directoryMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  56. 1/4 config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config fileMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  57. Thomas RastJul 12, 2012
  58. config: fix several access(NULL) callsMatthieu Moy, Jul 12, 2012
  59. Thomas RastJul 12, 2012
  60. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2012
  61. Matthieu MoyJul 12, 2012
  62. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2012
  63. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  64. config: fix several access(NULL) callsMatthieu Moy, Jul 13, 2012
  65. Jeff KingJul 13, 2012
  66. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  67. Thomas RastJul 13, 2012
  68. Matthieu MoyJul 13, 2012
  69. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2012
  70. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  71. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  72. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  73. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  74. 2/4 Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  75. 3/4 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignoreMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  76. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  77. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  78. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2012
  79. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  80. 4/4 config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if appropriateMatthieu Moy, Jun 22, 2012
  81. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  82. Matthieu MoyJun 25, 2012
  83. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2012
  84. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2012
  85. Ramsay JonesJun 4, 2012
  86. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2012
  87. Ramsay JonesJun 12, 2012
  88. nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.frJun 5, 2012

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