Suggestion: Make new configure file instead of git-config

[makimoto]

Hi, @motemen,

Now ghq's configuration gets complex.
Currently ghq's configuration rents a space from git-config, but I think that it's a time to make the configuration file for ghq.

Have you thought about separating ghq configuration from git-config to another configuration file? ($HOME/.ghqconfig or something)

[motemen]

Reasonable. I'll try on it later.

Maybe .ghqconfig would be like

[core]
root = ~

[url "https://ghe.example.com/"]
vcs = git

...or something, needs some consideration.

[makimoto]

In my opinion, there's no reason to continue using git-config format for ghq configuration. (excepting backward compatibility)
It is a little hard to write git-config format configuration by hand, and AFAIK to parse git-config format we must use git command or library (or write own parser...).

What about using JSON or YAML format for the configuration?
They are more popular and simpler to write than git-config format.

{
  "root": "/path/to/ghqrepos",
  "urls" : {
    "https://ghe.example.com/" : {
      "vcs": "git"
    }
}

root: "/path/to/ghqrepos"
urls:
    https://ghe.example.com/:
      - vcs: "git"

[josephholsten]

If you do this, please use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html.

[Songmu]

The "ghq" depends heavily on git, so I think it would be good to continue using gitconfig. I don't intend to add any more settings.