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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by ufo on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:40AM (#24070764)
I agree it wouldn't make sense to put the configs on a global folder like $HOME/.config but I don't see what would be the problem of putting them on a .config folder at the root of the project directory.

Recursive behavior would still work, the same way that Git can recognize that there is a ".git" directory in one of the ancestor directories.

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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by Terretta on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:33PM (#24083767)
With .config folder at root of project then paths in configs are ../whatever/ instead of whatever/ and ../ is evil plus having ../ on front of every path is noisy.
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