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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] home_config_path: allow NULL xdg parameter
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:16:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqa97x483v.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa97x71p7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:06:28 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr> writes:
>
>> This allows a caller to requst the global config file without requesting
>> the XDG one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
>> ---
>> This is actually not needed, but I wrote this for a previous version,
>> and it seems sensible anyway.
>
> I was about to say "Let's not do this until some caller needs it",
> implicitly assuming that we do not let global=NULL to signal that
> the caller is interested only in XDG, but I checked and we do check
> the NULL-ness of global, so it is consistent to do so for xdg.  The
> change makes very good sense.
>
> I wouldn't have had to spend the time to dig, if the log message
> justified it that way, instead of having "actually not needed"
> comment there ;-)
>
> 	home_config_paths(): let the caller ignore xdg path
>
> 	The caller can signal that it is not interested in learning
> 	the location of $HOME/.gitconfig by passing global=NULL, but
> 	there is no way to decline the ptah to the configuration
> 	file based on $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
>
>         Allow the caller to pass xdg=NULL to signal that it is not
>         interested in the XDG location.

Good point. Applied locally, I'll resend later.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 13:44 [RFC PATCH 1/3] config --global --edit: create a template file if needed Matthieu Moy
2014-07-25 13:44 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] home_config_path: allow NULL xdg parameter Matthieu Moy
2014-07-25 13:57   ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-25 18:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-25 18:16     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-07-25 13:44 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] commit: advertize config --global --edit on guessed identity Matthieu Moy
2014-07-25 15:40   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-07-25 15:37 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] config --global --edit: create a template file if needed Eric Sunshine
2014-07-25 16:01   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-25 17:51     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-07-25 17:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-25 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-25 17:52   ` Matthieu Moy

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