Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] config: read both home and xdg files for --global
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Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 23, 2026, 12:36 UTC
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- <CAPx1GvcDNx4BUPQkVjbKxYLxTJ=StvLC43R0S_2=T0R8NKbZ7w@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20260823-fix-config-list-global-home-and-xdg-v2-0-b29cc63f017b@microsoft.com>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 3:31 AM Delilah Ashley Wu <delilahwu@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all, thanks for your patience. Here's my reroll. > > As reported in [1], `$HOME/.gitconfig` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` > are both valid global configuration locations. However, when both files > exist, `git config list --global` only reads from the former location > whereas `git config list` (without `--global`) reads from both. The same > issue was reported for `git config get` in [2]. This inconsistency has > no good justification and contradicts the documented behaviour. > > Suppose that `$HOME/.gitconfig` contains: > [home] > config = true > > and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` contains: > [xdg] > config = true > > Then, listing with `--global` shows only the home config: > $ git config list --global --show-scope --show-origin > global file:/Users/delilah/.gitconfig home.config=true > > and getting the XDG configuration entry with `--global` will fail: > $ git config get --global xdg.config; echo $? > 1 > > Git still reads the XDG config as part of its effective configuration, > as shown by listing the configuration without `--global`: > $ git config list --show-scope --show-origin > global file:/Users/delilah/.config/git/config xdg.config=true > global file:/Users/delilah/.gitconfig home.config=true > > The documentation, quoted in [1] and [2], states that `--global` should > read from both files ...
I have a related question: which of the global file(s) does
git config --global --edit
edit? Which one(s) should it edit?
Chris