Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> 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, ...? Besides, with my distro package maintainer hat on, I can tell you that switching the config file to ~/.config/git and not reading ~/.gitconfig would be a complete nonstarter. That would mean that the existing user configuration for everyone would just seem to disappear. Once the code to read both files is written, why would one want that to be distro-specific and not something shared? Hoping that clarifies a little, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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