Re: [PATCH] Introduce the GIT_HOME environment variable

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

It solves the same problem ("set on environment variable, and change
my whole Git config"), but

* It's a standard. It's really nice to be able to ...
* It avoids hidden files. With $GIT_CONFIG, a user doing

I think the above are actually three bullet points (i.e. you lack line
break and bullet before "It's really nice").  And the third bullet is more
or less a small subset of the second one, since you need "ls -a" without
making them non-dot,  And I personally don't care very much about that
second "It's really nice to be able to" point.

As to the particular "standard" cited, I don't know how relevant it is to
us at this moment, or in this topic.  Judging from the fact that it
doesn't even define the scope of the standard (e.g. what classes of
applications are expected to follow it, for what benefit do they follow
it, how are they expected to handle differences between their historical
practice and the new world order it introduces, etc. etc....), I suspect
it is a very early draft that will be heavily copyedited before final,
once professional standard writers start looking at it.