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Store gh config in %APPDATA% on windows #1944
Description
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
- Authenticate
- 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.
Activity
mislav commentedon Sep 24, 2020
Good point; thank you!
Ref. #554
[-]Authenticating in Windows creates .config in user profile[/-][+]Store gh config in %APPDATA% on windows[/+]Neurognostic commentedon Oct 24, 2020
I would still like
ghto respectXDG_CONFIG_HOMEandXDG_DATA_HOMEin a Windows environment, but to fall back to%APPDATA%and%LOCALAPPDATA%if XDG variables are not set.just1a-person commentedon Dec 23, 2020
I would still like to see
config.ymlin ~\.config\gh\config.ymlmelMass commentedon 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.ymlbedge commentedon 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.