From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 19:01:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <vpqipfkozjm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20120525184408.GA4740@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> If I understand correctly, the proposal that started this thread was
>>> to give people a chance to tidy their HOME directory by moving
>>> personal git configuration under ~/.config/git/.  
>>
>> So it is exactly "I do not want ~/.gitconfig, I want ~/.config/git", no?
>>
>> That is something distro should be able to decide.
>
> Except that there is nothing distro-specific about it.  Do you really
> want the config file to have a different name depending on whether one
> is using Debian, Fedora, Mac OS X, Gentoo, one of the various builds of
> git on Windows, Solaris, ...?

I agree. Please don't encourage distro to make incompatible
configuration changes.

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