Todd Zullinger [off-list ref] writes:
The default core.excludesfile path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty or unset,
... because $HOME/.config is the default value for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
when it is unset, that is? If so, the change makes sense.
as described later in the document.
quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <redacted>
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Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index ff5d7f9ed6..d107daaffd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore
SYNOPSIS
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-$HOME/.config/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
DESCRIPTION
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