Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:22:43 +0100

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