Hi, On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:15 PM, <nguyenhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > As you know, git stores its configuration in ~/.gitconfig file and in other > > hidden files at the root of the user's directory. > > > > We would like to have a configuration directory instead of all these > > configuration files by following the XDG specification because: > > - not a lot of hidden files at the root, so better view > > - one directory per software in ~/.config > > > > We would like to give to users the possibility to store configuration in > > ~/.config/git/config file. > > I like this, but it shouldn't be "~/.config", it should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. If we do that what about a fallback to .config for operating systems that do not have XDG? E.g. Git for Windows would then also be able to benefit from that. Cheers Heiko -- 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