Re: Git to use XDG Base Directory Standard

On 23/08/12 04:57, David Aguilar wrote:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Carlos Martín Nieto [off-list ref] wrote:

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Lanoxx [off-list ref] writes:

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Hi,

Git and Gitk are currently using the ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitk files in
the $HOME directory. It would be nice to use the XDG Base Directory
standard for the location instead, see [1] and [2]. Are there any
plans regarding this standard?

Git does this starting at 1.7.12. See the release notes, e.g. at
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt#L18-23

    cmn

I do not recall whether gitk learned about it (I don't think so).

Like all big sweeping changes, these were done in a
backwards-compatible way that will allow users to switch over when
they are ready.  If you are interested in attacking this from the gitk
angle then you will want to follow a similar strategy.

I just checked it, the code is in 
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitk-git/gitk:2710 and following. 
Currently it still saves it to ~/.gitk-new and then renames it to ~/.gitk

Unfortunately I do not know Tcl/Tk so I can't provide a patch. But if 
someone could provide a patch that would be really nice.