[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] patman: Handle creation of patman config

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang, Vikram,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Wolfgang,
>
> On 4/30/2012 2:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
>> Dear Vikram&  Simon,
>>
>>
>> In message<4F9ACBD1.1080003@**gmail.com <4F9ACBD1.1080003 at gmail.com>>
>>  you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> patman shouts when it couldn't find a $(HOME)/.config/patman file.
>>> Handle it in a sane way by creating a new one for the user.
>>> It looks for a user.name and user.email in the global .gitconfig
>>> file, waits for the user input if it can't find those.
>>>
>>
>> I have a more general question here:  Why is the config file in
>> $(HOME)/.config/patman  (instead for example $(HOME)/.patman) ?
>>
>> My understanding is that $(HOME)/.config/ is defined by the XDG Base
>> Directory Specification - but patman has nothign to do with the X11
>> desktop - or has it?
>>
>
> Your argument is right. But Simon is the right person for answering this
> as he is the one who pushed patman.
>

I agree also, it was an attempt to reduce clutter in home but I agree that
.patman is more correct.

Vikram, let me check your series again and then would you mind inserting a
patch to change this at the start of your series?


> Regards,
> Vikram
>

Regards,
Simon