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Store gh config in %APPDATA% on windows #1944

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Store gh config in %APPDATA% on windows#1944
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@mcorossigo
mcorossigo
opened on Sep 24, 2020

Describe the bug

When I authenticate in gh with Powershell on Windows 10 it saves variuous files in .config/gh in my user profile folder.
It is expected on Linux, but on Windows I would love to have those files in %APPDATA% (like Github Desktop).

PS C:\Users\user> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
5      1      19041  1

PS C:\Users\user> gh --version
gh version 1.0.0 (2020-09-16)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Authenticate
  2. Find files in ~/.config/gh

Expected vs actual behavior

I expect configuration files to be in %APPDATA%/Github Cli when authenticating in Windows enviroment.

Logs

PS C:\Users\user> gh auth status
You are not logged into any GitHub hosts. Run gh auth login to authenticate.
PS C:\Users\user> gh auth login
? What account do you want to log into? GitHub.com
- Logging into github.com
? How would you like to authenticate? Login with a web browser

! First copy your one-time code: F775-F974
- Press Enter to open github.com in your browser...
✓ Authentication complete. Press Enter to continue...

? Choose default git protocol HTTPS
- gh config set -h github.com git_protocol https
✓ Configured git protocol
✓ Logged in as user
PS C:\Users\user> gh auth status
github.com
  ✓ Logged in to github.com as user(~/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol.

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  1. mcorossigo
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    on Sep 24, 2020

  2. mislav commented on Sep 24, 2020

    @mislav
    mislav
    on Sep 24, 2020
    Contributor

    Good point; thank you!

    Ref. #554

  3. vilmibm
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    enhancementa request to improve CLI
    help wantedContributions welcome
    windowsRelated to Windows hosts or runners
    and removed
    bugSomething isn't working
    on Sep 29, 2020
  4. vilmibm
    changed the title [-]Authenticating in Windows creates .config in user profile[/-] [+]Store gh config in %APPDATA% on windows[/+] on Sep 29, 2020

  5. Neurognostic commented on Oct 24, 2020

    @Neurognostic
    Neurognostic
    on Oct 24, 2020

    I would still like gh to respect XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME in a Windows environment, but to fall back to %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% if XDG variables are not set.

  6. just1a-person commented on Dec 23, 2020

    @just1a-person
    just1a-person
    on Dec 23, 2020
    Contributor

    I would still like to see config.yml in ~\.config\gh\config.yml

  7. samcoe
    self-assigned this
    on May 19, 2021
  8. samcoe
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  9. vilmibm
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    on May 19, 2021
  10. samcoe
    closed this as completedin #3671on May 24, 2021

  11. melMass commented on Mar 7, 2024

    @melMass
    melMass
    on Mar 7, 2024

    For those who find this from google, it wasn't obvious, this now gets installed in :

    C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\GitHub CLI\config.yml

  12. bedge commented on Jul 1, 2024

    @bedge
    bedge
    on Jul 1, 2024

    Anyone brave enough to try symlinking either config.yml or hosts.yml between env's (Windows & WSL)?
    Would be nice to not have WSL mean one has to replicate every cfg dir just because the path format differs.

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