From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:07:29 +0530
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] patman: Handle creation of patman config
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Hello Wolfgang,

On 4/30/2012 2:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Vikram&  Simon,
>
> In message<4F9ACBD1.1080003@gmail.com>  you wrote:
>>
>> patman shouts when it couldn't find a $(HOME)/.config/patman file.
>> Handle it in a sane way by creating a new one for the user.
>> It looks for a user.name and user.email in the global .gitconfig
>> file, waits for the user input if it can't find those.
>
> I have a more general question here:  Why is the config file in
> $(HOME)/.config/patman  (instead for example $(HOME)/.patman) ?
>
> My understanding is that $(HOME)/.config/ is defined by the XDG Base
> Directory Specification - but patman has nothign to do with the X11
> desktop - or has it?

Your argument is right. But Simon is the right person for answering this 
as he is the one who pushed patman.

Regards,
Vikram