From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:48:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: fix several access(NULL) calls
Message-ID: <vpq1ukg82st.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr28agcq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> But is it really true that we want to error out on missing HOME if
> we have usable XDG stuff?

Anyone else have an opinion on this?

In short, the question is whether

  export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=some-existing-dir
  unset HOME
  git config foo.baz boz

should die("$HOME is unset") or use the XDG config file.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/