Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

On vr, 2015-02-20 at 11:06 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

The ~/.git-credential-cache may be a bit harder, but the case of
~/.git-credentials should follow the same pattern as files for which
this is already done. So, doing it by mimicking existing code
shouldn't
be too hard.

But maybe that's me being optimistic ;-)

Having just copied that logic to one of my tools, I reaclly would have
fount if useful to have something that, given a config file name tells
you where it should be, maybe in the resident kitchen-sink that is
rev-parse:

$ git rev-parse --config git
/home/dennis/.gitconfig
$ git rev-parse --config gitk
/home/dennis/.gitk
$ git rev-parse --config foobar
/home/dennis/.foobar

Or, when XDG config files are used:

$ git rev-parse --config gitk
/home/dennis/.config/git/gitk
$ git rev-parse --config git
/home/dennis/.config/git/config
$ git rev-parse --config foobar
/home/dennis/.config/git/foobar

So, ~/.$filename or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/filename, with a special case
only for git itself, with consistent selection of which to use
(currently gitk and git are inconsistent).

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
http://www.kaarsemaker.net