Thoughts on checking ~/.confg/gitui or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gitui on mac before defaulting to the existing dir?

[nerdrew]

Many terminal apps use ~/.config/<app-name> even on mac. I assume other also have ~/.confg (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/) checked into VCS somewhere. It'd be nice to have my gitui config live with all my other terminal app configs :)

Happy to open a PR if this is welcome.

[extrawurst]

I would need more input from more Mac users on this.
@jonstodle what are your 2c on this?

[jonstodle]

I honestly expect terminal apps to put config in either ~/ directly or (preferably) in ~/.config/<app name>. Logs and temp files I still expect to be put in their idiomatic macOS locations.

[terhechte]

Very longtime Mac user here; I was puzzled to find that the configuration resides in ~/Library.. as that is normally reserved for non-terminal GUI apps. Terminal apps nowadays prefer ~/.config (compared to the ~/. that used to be the default aeons ago)

[extrawurst]

I love it, special treatment everywhere... so we can use .config on macOS without any conditions?

[non-descriptive]

looks like XDG directories are conventional just among devs, otherwise it should fallback to recommended apple fs guide.

[shawnohare]

I symlink most of my configs with a stow-like bash script, and greatly appreciate apps that use XDG on Unix-like systems so that my my linking is consistent across OSes. The vast majority of the apps I use follow XDG, but there's a few outliers that prove annoying when I have to use a mac (e.g., for work).