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Subject: Re: [GSOC] Microproject "Move ~/.git-credential-cache to ~/.config/git"
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=E6=83=A0=E8=BD=B6=E7=BE=A4 <huiyiqun@gmail.com> writes:

> After reading the
> [spec](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-sp=
ec-0.7.html)
> more carefully, I think that $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may be a better choice =
than
> the above two. For ~/.git-credential-cache/socket is a unix socket an=
d should
> be used only runtime.

Nice.

> Of course I could check the existence of `~/.git-credential-cache` an=
d
> `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credential-cache` to decide where to put
> the socket,

I think that is the most sensible.  They are directories that are
expected to be persistent, aren't they?

You sound like you think it is better to check the location of the
existing socket, but I am having a hard time understanding and/or
guessing why you might think so, especially when you already know
that the socket itself may not be persistent.  Puzzled...