* Declutter the home directory
@ 2023-11-12 12:10 Félix Piédallu
2023-11-12 13:39 ` Dragan Simic
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From: Félix Piédallu @ 2023-11-12 12:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: git
Hi,
I'm new on this mailing list so please tell me if the subject was
already discussed.
The Freedesktop XDG Base Directory specification
(https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)
aims to declutter the home directory by moving files where they should
be more logically located. Here i'll be talking about some directories:
* $XDG_CACHE_HOME, that defaults to the well-known $HOME/.cache
* $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, that defaults to the also well known $HOME/.config
* $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, that should contain non-essential runtime files
such as socket files
For now 4 kind of files are put in the $HOME directory by git:
* .gitconfig | .config/git/config
it defaults to .gitconfig
* .git-credentials | .config/git/credentials from the credential-store
it also defaults to .git-credentials
* .cache/git/credentials | .git-credential-cache/ from credential-cache
this one defaults to .cache/git/credentials/
* .git-fsmonitor-%s for Darwin file system monitor.
I have 3 propositions:
## Move runtimes files to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
* .cache/git/credential/ -> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/git/credential/
* .git-fsmonitor-%s -> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/git/fsmonitor/%s
Those file shall be deleted at the end of the user session, so this is
the good place to store them.
## Move ~/.config/git/credentials to ~/.cache/git/credentials
Indeed this might contain sensitive information that some users don't
want to be backed up or synchronized.
A possibility would be to read ~/.cache/git/credentials,
~/.config/git/credentials, ~/.git-credentials, and to use the first
existing one.
## Default to XDG paths instead of home directory
It would just swap the priority of the two possible paths. It would also
only impact new installations as, if ~/.gitconfig exists, it would keep
being used.
The goal of those propositions is to declutter the home directory, and
ease the cleanup, backup and synchronisation of user settings.
Thanks for reading me.
Félix Piédallu
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* Re: Declutter the home directory
2023-11-12 12:10 Declutter the home directory Félix Piédallu
@ 2023-11-12 13:39 ` Dragan Simic
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From: Dragan Simic @ 2023-11-12 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Félix Piédallu; +Cc: git
On 2023-11-12 13:10, Félix Piédallu wrote:
> ## Default to XDG paths instead of home directory
>
> It would just swap the priority of the two possible paths. It would
> also only impact new installations as, if ~/.gitconfig exists, it
> would keep being used.
Quite frankly, some configuration files should remain in $HOME, and
~/.gitconfig is IMHO one of those. It's used very frequently, not only
directly, but also while discussing or explaining various configuration
features or issues. Thus, moving it somewhere else would only make
things more complicated and worse.
IOW, I think that the order/priority shouldn't be changed.
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