MacOS config.yml PATH in ~/.config

[oscarmlage]

The ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml is not taken into account in MacOS

Tried to add some config stuff to ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml in MacOS but it didn't work out. It worked when the config was added to ~/Library/Application Support/lazygit/config.yml as it says in the docs.

Proposal

Would it be posible to add ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml as a valid path for the config in MacOS too?, taking in account some kind of priority if both are present.

Additional context

I mean, as some other software reads the config from there probably it's more friendly to have the config in ~/.config too, thinking about dealing with dotfiles, put them in a repo, maintaining etc...

[RyannDaGreat]

I second this...I tried both

/Users/Ryan/Library/Application Support/Ryan/lazygit/config.yml
/Users/Ryan/Library/Application Support/lazygit/config.yml
/Users/Ryan/.config/lazygit/config.yml

but none of them work on my Catalina mac :\

[Ryooooooga]

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

works for me.

[0123takaokeita]

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

works for me.

It worked for me too with this setup.

[ChrisMcD1]

/close

This should now be fixed in latest. 59f0650

[LorenzoBettini]

Unless I miss something, this is still an issue in macOS, with

lazygit --version
commit=, build date=, build source=homebrew, version=0.48.0, os=darwin, arch=arm64, git version=2.49.0

Even if I wipe ~/Library/Application Support/lazygit and put the config.yml in ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml, Lazygit ignores my configuration and recreates a default one in the former directory...

[stefanhaller]

It seems that #3989 fell through the cracks and was never merged. I'll see if I can bring it up to date and merge it soon.

In the meantime, export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" should work, does it not for you @LorenzoBettini?

(Also, you are not using the latest version, please upgrade your homebrew.)

[LorenzoBettini]

@stefanhaller yes, setting xdg works.

I commented here because I seemed to understand that was not needed anymore. In fact, you confirm that the fix was not merged.

[ChrisMcD1]

My apologies on closing this! Human error on my part. I don't have permissions to re-open, or otherwise I would 😅

[dhoppe]

@stefanhaller In my case it does not work.

❯ lazygit --version
commit=, build date=, build source=Homebrew, version=0.55.0, os=darwin, arch=arm64, git version=2.51.0

The environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is working as expected.

❯ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
/Users/dhoppe/.config

However, Lazygit still searches for a configuration file in the old directory.

❯ lazygit --print-config-dir
/Users/dhoppe/Library/Application Support/lazygit

Edit: It is working, when I use $LG_CONFIG_FILE instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but Lazygit still points to the old config directory.

❯ echo $LG_CONFIG_FILE
/Users/dhoppe/.config/lazygit/config.yml

❯ lazygit --print-config-dir
/Users/dhoppe/Library/Application Support/lazygit

[stefanhaller]

@dhoppe I don't know what to say; works for me.

❯ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/foo/bar lazygit --print-config-dir
/foo/bar/lazygit

[spacetime-labs]

Having export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" in my .zshrc did it for me. But I hope .config is the default directory later on.