Re: [RFC] Possibility to choose ~/.config/git/config instead of ~/.gitconfig

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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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,...

Not me personally.  But distros want to do that, it's their choice.

Besides, with my distro package maintainer hat on, I can tell you that
switching the config file to ~/.config/git and not reading
~/.gitconfig would be a complete nonstarter.

Absolutely.  So don't choose to deliberately introduce backward
incompatibliity.  Problem solved.

Why is it bad to keep using ~/.gitconfig in the first place?  The UNIX
convention to exclude names that begin with dot is not working for you?