Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN <nguyenhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hello,
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
I update my suggestion.
As I said, I would like to propose to users the possibility to have an
XDG configuration file, that's to say $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config. If
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used.
So now I will put forward 2 patches: one for reading, and one for writing.
Patch for reading:
Git would read both in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config and in ~/.gitconfig
in this order:
.git/config > ~/.gitconfig > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config > /etc/gitconfig
Patch for writing:
Git would write its configuration in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if:
- this file exists,
- and ~/.gitconfig file doesn't.
Otherwise git would write its configuration in ~/.gitconfig as usual.
If you don't create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, there is no change.
I don't want to force users to have $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config.
I will write in documentation advice for users who often come back to
an old version of Git, on different computers with the same $HOME, not
to use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config for the time being. If they don't
read documentation, they can't know possibility of
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config.
I will send you the patch for reading before 24h.
Then I will try to send you the patch for writing before 24h.
We will also send other patches to propose to users the possiblity to
have easily $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitignore and
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitattributes.
Valentin DUPERRAY,
Franck JONAS
Lucien KONG,
Thomas NGUY,
Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN,
Grenoble INP ENSIMAG
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