Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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,... Not me personally. But distros want to do that, it's their choice. > 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. Absolutely. So don't choose to deliberately introduce backward incompatibliity. Problem solved. Why is it bad to keep using ~/.gitconfig in the first place? The UNIX convention to exclude names that begin with dot is not working for you? -- 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