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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	kyle@kyleam.com
Subject: Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:56:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xoH=wxYntERNiC4g32Kd9VmHmrBTCka-GCw+v6OsyjZ3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171218064042.GA25733@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 08:03:41PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
>
>> I do find it a bit weird that --global writes to one of either file,
>> and doesn't read from both. I'd rather have --global "only" be
>> .gitconfig, and instead add a new option for handling XDG file, and
>> then have it such that it reads them in system -> xdg ->
>> home/.gitconfig -> local, which allows for local .gitconfig to
>> override XDG config, but logically treat them just like we do any
>> other files.
>
> I find it weird, too, but I'm not sure that's the right direction. It
> means that users have to start caring about using "--xdg" instead of
> "--global" if that's what they want to write to. The original idea was
> that the transition to xdg should be fairly seamless, and that --global
> would be an abstraction over both.
>
> To complete that abstraction it seems like reading via "--global" should
> read from both (in the same precedence order that normal config lookup
> uses). If you only use one, there wouldn't be any change in behavior.
> And if you use both, then the behavior makes sense as a subset of the
> normal config lookup. I.e., it could even be explained as:
>
>   If you give no "source", normal config lookup is similar to checking
>   "--system", then "--global", then "--local".
>
> The only person who might be affected is somebody who carries both files
> _and_ really wanted "--global" to read from one specific file (though I
> have no idea from which without looking at the source, and from reading
> this thread it seems I am not the only one who would be confused). So
> I'd be OK calling that an unintended and unsupported behavior, and the
> right thing all along should have been to use "--file=" if you really
> want to avoid "--global" automagic.
>
> -Peff

I think this end game is fine with me too, it's definitely better than
what we have now.

Thanks,
Jake

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-18 19:57 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
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 [this message]

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