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XDG base directory specification compatibility for Git #268

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XDG base directory specification compatibility for Git #268

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Closes #267

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XDG base directory specification compatibility for Git
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Before the Gir snowblock symlinked to the default dotfiles within the
home directory, but Git also fully supports the XDG base directory
specification [1]. So in order to get a step further regarding a
"clean home directory root" the files have been moved to the dedicated
XDG directory.

- Global (`--global`) configuration file [2]
  `~/.gitconfig` -> `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/git/config`
- Global exclude file [3]
  `~/.gitignore` -> `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/git/ignore`
- Global attributes file [4]
  `~/.gitattributes` -> `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/git/attributes`

Also the templates and files used in conditional `include` blocks have
also been renamed and moved into a new and cleaner directory structure.

[1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[2]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt---global
[4]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-coreattributesFile
[3]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-coreexcludesFile

GH-267

Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <development@svengreb.de>
@arcticicestudio arcticicestudio added this to the Next milestone May 5, 2020
@arcticicestudio arcticicestudio merged commit 311fd27 into master May 5, 2020
@arcticicestudio arcticicestudio deleted the improvement/gh-267-git-xdg-base-dir-spec branch May 5, 2020 14:37
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