config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file

Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.

In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).

We do not write to this new location (yet).

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. This is in line with XDG specification.

If the new file does not exist, the behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 71ef171cab..d28a499b0b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -929,7 +929,10 @@ int git_config_system(void)
 int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *data, const char *repo_config)
 {
 	int ret = 0, found = 0;
-	const char *home = NULL;
+	char *xdg_config = NULL;
+	char *user_config = NULL;
+
+	home_config_paths(&user_config, &xdg_config, "config");
 
 	if (git_config_system() && !access(git_etc_gitconfig(), R_OK)) {
 		ret += git_config_from_file(fn, git_etc_gitconfig(),
@@ -937,14 +940,14 @@ int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *data, const char *repo_config)
 		found += 1;
 	}
 
-	home = getenv("HOME");
-	if (home) {
-		char buf[PATH_MAX];
-		char *user_config = mksnpath(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/.gitconfig", home);
-		if (!access(user_config, R_OK)) {
-			ret += git_config_from_file(fn, user_config, data);
-			found += 1;
-		}
+	if (!access(xdg_config, R_OK)) {
+		ret += git_config_from_file(fn, xdg_config, data);
+		found += 1;
+	}
+
+	if (!access(user_config, R_OK)) {
+		ret += git_config_from_file(fn, user_config, data);
+		found += 1;
 	}
 
 	if (repo_config && !access(repo_config, R_OK)) {
@@ -963,6 +966,8 @@ int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *data, const char *repo_config)
 		break;
 	}
 
+	free(xdg_config);
+	free(user_config);
 	return ret == 0 ? found : ret;
 }