Adhere to the XDG base directory specification

[piegamesde]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Since gitui has no configuration (yet?), this may be a bit early, but you're already on the wrong path:

to enable logging to ~/.gitui/gitui.log:

So please don't do that and use the XDG environment variables do determine where to put config, log and other files.

Additional context

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

[extrawurst]

That is a very good point. I was wondering what is the "standard" here! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[extrawurst]

@piegamesde does that adhere to convention on linux?

this will log to:

• $HOME/Library/Caches/gitui/gitui.log (mac)
• $XDG_CACHE_HOME/gitui/gitui.log (linux using XDG)
• $HOME/.cache/gitui/gitui.log (linux otherwise)

[piegamesde]

LGTM, even if I can't speak for MAC users (in theory the XDG specification is not limited to Linux, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ). You could partly follow the specification on MAC by using $XDG_CACHE_HOME if set, but defaulting to $HOME/Library/Caches instead of $HOME/.cache if not.

[extrawurst]

merged

[piegamesde]

Thx