From: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:32:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration.
Message-ID: <f73f7ab80901242332x7de1f856j51181c3c05cf2b11@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <83wscndv57.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> wrote:
> In any case, what Cygwin git does should be expected by Cygwin
> users.  If msysgit wanted to be a really native Windows application
> and store the configuration where Microsoft thinks it should be
> stored, it probably shouldn't store the config under "home
> directory" to begin with (I'm guessing that's what it does) but
> under %USERPROFILE\Application Data\Git (...FILE\Local
> Settings\... in case non-roaming storage is wanted).  And in that
> case the manual might be misleading for msysgit users.  See
> e.g. <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995853.aspx>.

Actually, if msysgit really wanted to be a "native" windows program,
it would use the good-old brain-damaged method of storing
everything-and-the-kitchen-sink in the registry, including the
locations and reflogs for every repository you have ever examined.
Admittedly the collection of 150+ dotfiles in my Linux homedir looks
relatively similar to parts of the windows registry at times...

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett