From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:45:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig
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In-Reply-To: <20120525181526.Horde.VibLf3wdC4BPv7AeKacSMiA@webmail.minatec.grenoble-inp.fr>

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:15 PM,  <nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.fr> wrote:

> As you know, git stores its configuration in ~/.gitconfig file and in other
> hidden files at the root of the user's directory.
>
> We would like to have a configuration directory instead of all these
> configuration files by following the XDG specification because:
> - not a lot of hidden files at the root, so better view
> - one directory per software in ~/.config
>
> We would like to give to users the possibility to store configuration in
> ~/.config/git/config file.

I like this, but it shouldn't be "~/.config", it should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

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Felipe Contreras