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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.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 11:36:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqshcf20y1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xpH6M-FqRJcvsbv=mjj1T04GR6pxz-4NkTmGZUgUKU6wQ@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:36:17 -0800")

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?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-12 19:36 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 [this message]
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

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