From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:01:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120525181526.Horde.VibLf3wdC4BPv7AeKacSMiA@webmail.minatec.grenoble-inp.fr> <7v4nr4t9gc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120525182558.GC4491@burratino> <7vsjeortwu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120525184408.GA4740@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Hilco Wijbenga , nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.fr, git@vger.kernel.org, Valentin DUPERRAY , Franck JONAS , Lucien KONG , Thomas NGUY , Huynh Khoi Nguyen NGUYEN To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 25 21:03:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SXznC-0001tD-8U for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:03:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758201Ab2EYTDM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 15:03:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:53267 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756085Ab2EYTDM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 15:03:12 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4PIrVXa032013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 25 May 2012 20:53:31 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SXzlW-0005ck-IC; Fri, 25 May 2012 21:01:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120525184408.GA4740@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Fri, 25 May 2012 13:44:09 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Fri, 25 May 2012 20:53:31 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q4PIrVXa032013 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1338576812.77326@/EYF4XTilPhLnrwegwCtEQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder writes: > >>> If I understand correctly, the proposal that started this thread was >>> to give people a chance to tidy their HOME directory by moving >>> personal git configuration under ~/.config/git/. >> >> So it is exactly "I do not want ~/.gitconfig, I want ~/.config/git", no? >> >> That is something distro should be able to decide. > > Except that there is nothing distro-specific about it. Do you really > want the config file to have a different name depending on whether one > is using Debian, Fedora, Mac OS X, Gentoo, one of the various builds of > git on Windows, Solaris, ...? I agree. Please don't encourage distro to make incompatible configuration changes. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/