From: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
kyle@kyleam.com, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:13:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212141355.7hcuegaopb6hee2l@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtvww3gea.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> > I think the documentation
> > ~/.gitconfig
> > User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
> > configuration file.
> > should be clarified --- e.g. it could say
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
> > ~/.gitconfig
> > User-specific configuration files. Because options in
> > these files are not specific to any repository, thes
> > are sometimes called global configuration files.
> Yeah, I think that makes sense.
> > As for "git config --global", I think the best thing would be to split
> > it into two options: something like "git config --user" and "git
> > config --xdg-user". That way, it is unambiguous which configuration
> > file the user intends to inspect or modify. When a user calls "git
> > config --global" and both files exist, it could warn that the command
> > is ambiguous.
> > Thoughts?
> 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.
note that atm $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config is read as --global iff
~/.gitconfig is absent and read always without --global. So it is
flipping between "global" and "some kind of non-global but user-specific
configuration file" (so sounds like a global to me ;) )
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 21:11 Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug? Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-12-11 22:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-12-12 0:48 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-12-12 1:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12 9:36 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-12 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 5:35 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-12 14:13 ` Yaroslav Halchenko [this message]
2017-12-13 5:35 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-16 22:01 ` brian m. carlson
2017-12-18 4:03 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-18 6:40 ` Jeff King
2017-12-18 14:21 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-12-18 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-18 19:56 ` Jacob Keller
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