Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:48:18AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > But is it really true that we want to error out on missing HOME if
>> > we have usable XDG stuff?
>>
>> Anyone else have an opinion on this?
>>
>> In short, the question is whether
>>
>> export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=some-existing-dir
>> unset HOME
>> git config foo.baz boz
>>
>> should die("$HOME is unset") or use the XDG config file.
>
> What did previous versions of git do? From my reading of 21cf32279, the
> previous behavior was that if $HOME was not set, git would silently
> avoid reading from $HOME/.gitconfig entirely.
Yes, and this is still the case for _reading_. But the current case is
about deciding which file to use when _writing_. Git was already dying
when writing with an unset $HOME. There is no behavior change in this
case.
With Junio's suggestion, we would have a behavior change in that we
would write to the XDG file if we can find it (using XDG_CONFIG_HOME,
obviously, since $HOME is unset in this case).
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Matthieu Moy
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