Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?

>> I actually thought that the plan was "you either have this, or the
>> other one, never both at the same time" (and I think those who
>> pushed the XDG thing in to the system made us favor it over the
>> traditional one).  So as long as --global updates the one that
>> exists, and updates XDG one when both or neither do, I think we
>> should be OK.  And from that viewpoint, we definitely do not want
>> two kinds of --global to pretend as if we support use of both at the
>> same time.
>
> It appears that we actually prefer ~/.gitconfig rather than XDG_CONFIG_HOME..
>
> And at least based on current cursory testing on the command line, we
> do both read and write to the proper location, assuming that
> ~/.gitconfig is preferred over $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.