This is a resend of a serie already discussed here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198837 I took the liberty of rewording the commit messages, and change a few words in the documentation (changed some "will be used" to "is used instead", which sounded more consistant with the context). A reminder of the context and objectives of the serie: Git currently stores its configuration file in ~/.gitconfig, which is nice and customary on Unix, as long as one has only one configuration file. But a typical user may want to store not only the config file, but also the files pointed to by core.excludesfile and core.attributesfile, which currently have no default values. To store several configuration files, it makes sense to have a configuration _directory_ instead of a set of configuration files, all right into $HOME. Calling this configuration directory ~/.git or ~/.gitconfig is not an option, since these paths already have another meaning. Using the XDG specification (in short: ~/.config/git) doesn't have this drawback, and allows the user to store his configuration files right next to files from other applications following the XDG standard. The first 3 patches add read support for this "configuration directory", and the last one gives opt-in write support, allowing users to make this "configuration directory" their way of life, and never hear again about ~/.gitconfig if (and only if) they do not want to. None of the patches change the behavior for people who do not create the new configuration files. Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen (4): config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if appropriate Documentation/config.txt | 8 +- Documentation/git-config.txt | 15 +++- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 + Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 +- attr.c | 17 +++-- builtin/config.c | 25 ++++--- cache.h | 3 + config.c | 23 +++--- dir.c | 7 +- path.c | 41 +++++++++++ t/t1306-xdg-files.sh | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t1306-xdg-files.sh -- 1.7.11.rc3.235.gd0d1d08 -- 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