From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 08:42:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.el: handle default excludesfile properly
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR=adC_Ok=FJw2APaLahXX_v1ix4ufEJyBhED5ruXaQxA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180303034803.21589-1-dorabpatel@gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Dorab Patel <dorabpatel@gmail.com> wrote:
> The previous version only looked at core.excludesfile for locating the
> excludesfile.  So, when core.excludesfile was not defined, it did not
> use the possible default locations.
>
> The current version uses either $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore or
> $HOME/.config/git/ignore for the default excludesfile location
> depending on whether XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined or not.  As per the
> documentation of gitignore.

Perhaps take $HOME/.gitignore into account too?

> Signed-off-by: Dorab Patel <dorabpatel@gmail.com>