Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I actually thought that the plan was "you either have this, or the >> other one, never both at the same time" (and I think those who >> pushed the XDG thing in to the system made us favor it over the >> traditional one). So as long as --global updates the one that >> exists, and updates XDG one when both or neither do, I think we >> should be OK. And from that viewpoint, we definitely do not want >> two kinds of --global to pretend as if we support use of both at the >> same time. > > It appears that we actually prefer ~/.gitconfig rather than XDG_CONFIG_HOME.. > > And at least based on current cursory testing on the command line, we > do both read and write to the proper location, assuming that > ~/.gitconfig is preferred over $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. OK, so I misremembered the details but it seems that the behaviour is consistent and there is no ambiguity? Am I reading you correctly?
