From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen <nguyenhu@ensimag.imag.fr>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen <nguyenhu@ensibm.imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add possibility to store configuration in ~/.config/git/config file
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:49:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120526214904.GB29463@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq62bjnx14.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:53:27AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen <nguyenhu@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:
>
> > + sprintf(config_path, "%s/.config/git/config", home);
>
> It's not terribly important, but if we are to use something that looks
> like XDG, I'd rather have a real support for it. ~/.config/ is the
> default, but the spec
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> also define $XDG_CONFIG_HOME that may override the default and we may
> want to support $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS too.
I agree. This series is much less appealing as "put the config in some
other place" and much more appealing as "conform to an existing standard
about dot-file locations". And if we are going to follow the standard,
then we should do all parts of it.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-26 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 19:47 [PATCH 1/2] Add possibility to store configuration in ~/.config/git/config file NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen
2012-05-25 19:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] Test File Name: t1306-second-config-file.sh NGUYEN Huynh Khoi Nguyen
2012-05-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add possibility to store configuration in ~/.config/git/config file Jeff King
2012-05-25 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-25 21:44 ` Jeff King
2012-05-26 10:15 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-05-26 21:54 ` Jeff King
2012-05-28 21:05 ` David Aguilar
2012-05-26 9:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-05-25 21:26 ` jaseem abid
2012-05-26 8:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-05-26 21:49 ` Jeff King [this message]
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2012-05-28 16:16 nguyenhu
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