Re: git/path.c - order of accessing ~/.gitconfig

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 18, 2013, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq8uyuxjfe.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130918.201006.407922449.enometh@meer.net>

Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

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> * commit 21cf32279120799a766d22416be7d82d9ecfbd04
> |
> | Author: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
> | Date:   Fri Jun 22 11:03:23 2012 +0200
> |
> |    config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
> |
> |    Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
> |    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
> |    cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.
> |
> |    In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
> |    configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
> |    configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).
>
>
> However git/config.c (git_config_early) commit accesses xdg_config
> before user_config.  So the comments and documentation are
> inconsistent with the code.

It seems the commit message is wrong, indeed. But it's too late to fix it. OTOH, the documentation seems right to me (Documentation/git-config.txt). It says:

  $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig::
  	System-wide configuration file.
  
  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config::
  	Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set
  	or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/config` will be used. Any single-valued
  	variable set in this file will be overwritten by whatever is in
  	`~/.gitconfig`.  It is a good idea not to create this file if
  	you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this
  	file was added fairly recently.
  
  ~/.gitconfig::
  	User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
  	configuration file.
  
  $GIT_DIR/config::
  	Repository specific configuration file.

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Matthieu Moy
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