Re: [PATCHv6 2/4] Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 8, 2012, 08:47 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqk3zi1978.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3ziem2n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> Perhaps the problem you are solving is something like this (by the
> way, you didn't state what problem you are trying to solve at all):
> [...]

That is a very good summary of what the patch tries to do. Following XDG is a nice side effect, but not the primary goal.

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

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