Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> 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?

As far as I could tell based on local testing. I could be wrong, and
haven't yet cooked up a test case for it yet.

Thanks,
Jake