On 6/8/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > On 6/8/06, Sven Ekman <svekman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> skrev:
> > Have you considered making ~/.gitconfig a directory? > > Maybe Git wants to store more data later.
> I second that.
I don't. What's wrong with the simple approach of a single config file? You can use a single tool for all the configuration, and do not need to care about anything.
Who said anything about something more than one configuration file? It's nice to have a directory if we later decide to store other kinds of files there as well, e.g., templates or some keyring information or something else, perhaps not well-suited for storing in an ini-like file.
> And it'd be nice if it was configurable through an environment variable, > e.g., GIT_USER_CONFIG_HOME.
Let's see. AFAIK all programs I know (including cvs and vim, for one) have a fixed name. Hmm. Perhaps this is for a reason? Like, to reduce confusion?
That's hardly a very good reason. It's not like you _have_ to use another name. I keep as many configuration files as possible in ~/.local/etc/, as it simplifies keeping them in a Git repository. Here's an extract from my .zprofile: XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/.local/etc VIMINIT="so $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim/vimrc" INPUTRC=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inputrc INDENT_PROFILE=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/indentrc SCREENRC=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/screenrc GNUPGHOME=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnupg IRBRC=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/irbrc LFTP_HOME=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lftp MPLAYER_HOME=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mplayer GTK2_RC_FILES=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtkrc The only programs that don't play along, yet, are Mozilla, OpenSSH, and Subversion. (Mozilla is actually compile-time configurable.) But I guess I should be providing a patch instead of just a bunch of reasoning for someone else to write one...
Alternatively, we could introduce a config variable "core.globalConfig" to see where the global config is.
That is a very good idea. We wouldn't need an environment variable in that case. nikolai (who wonders if people can spot irony and sarcasm without extra help) - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html