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Add support for ~/.config/lazygit without setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME on macOS #3989

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6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions docs/Config.md
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Default path for the global config file:

- Linux: `~/.config/lazygit/config.yml`
- MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/lazygit/config.yml`
- MacOS: `~/.config/lazygit/config.yml` (previously `~/Library/Application\ Support/lazygit/config.yml`)
- Windows: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\lazygit\config.yml` (default location, but it will also be found in `%APPDATA%\lazygit\config.yml`

For old installations (slightly embarrassing: I didn't realise at the time that you didn't need to supply a vendor name to the path so I just used my name):
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- MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml`
- Windows: `%APPDATA%\jesseduffield\lazygit\config.yml`

If you want to change the config directory:

- MacOS: `export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"`

In addition to the global config file you can create repo-specific config files in `<repo>/.git/lazygit.yml`. Settings in these files override settings in the global config file. In addition, files called `.lazygit.yml` in any of the parent directories of a repo will also be loaded; this can be useful if you have settings that you want to apply to a group of repositories.

JSON schema is available for `config.yml` so that IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code (completion and error checking) is automatically enabled when the [YAML Red Hat][yaml] extension is installed. However, note that automatic schema detection only works if your config file is in one of the standard paths mentioned above. If you override the path to the file, you can still make IntelliSense work by adding
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37 changes: 36 additions & 1 deletion pkg/config/app_config.go
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return true, legacyConfigPath
}

// if on macOs, default to looking in ~/.config/lazygit first since that's
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I generally don't like lengthy comments in the middle of methods, but I thought that this was obtuse enough to warrant a description of why we have to implement this behavior instead of using xdg.

// the most common location for CLI apps to store configuration when
// `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is not set. The `xdg` package uses `~/Library/Application\ Support`
// as the default directory for macOS, so we have to handle this case manually.
if overrideXdgConfigHome && os.Getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME") == "" {
homeConfigFilePath, err := findHomeConfigFile(filename)
if err == nil {
return true, homeConfigFilePath
}
}

// look for lazygit/filename in XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
configFilepath, err := xdg.SearchConfigFile(filepath.Join("lazygit", filename))
if err == nil {
return true, configFilepath
}

return false, filepath.Join(xdg.ConfigHome, "lazygit", filename)
configHome := xdg.ConfigHome
// If we're on macOS and XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set, we use
// ~/.config/lazygit instead of the default `~/Library/Application\ Support`
// directory the `xdg` package uses.
if overrideXdgConfigHome && os.Getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME") == "" {
if homeDir, err := os.UserHomeDir(); err == nil {
return false, filepath.Join(homeDir, ".config", "lazygit", filename)
}
}

return false, filepath.Join(configHome, "lazygit", filename)
}

var ConfigFilename = "config.yml"
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return stateFilePath("development.log")
}

func findHomeConfigFile(filename string) (string, error) {
home, err := os.UserHomeDir()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}

path := filepath.Join(home, ".config", "lazygit", filename)
if _, err = os.Stat(path); err != nil {
return "", err
}

return path, nil
}
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions pkg/config/xdg.go
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//go:build !darwin

package config

const overrideXdgConfigHome = false
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions pkg/config/xdg_darwin.go
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//go:build darwin

package config

const overrideXdgConfigHome = true
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