Looking for help with Git for Windows and using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[rjfmachado]

Per https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#FILES, git should be able to use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to look for the .gitconfig file.

I'm seeting XDG_CONFIG_HOME to $HOME\dev\configuration.config on Windows 11 and getting an access error as git seems to use forward slashes when appending the file's location. Powershell and nushell have no issues accessing .gitconfig in that location.

Has anyone tried this before?

❯ git config
warning: unable to access 'C:\Users\r_mac\dev\configuration.config/git/config': Permission denied
error: no action specified

❯ ls C:\Users\r_mac\dev\configuration.config/git/config

Directory: C:\Users\r_mac\dev\configuration\.config\git\config

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

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-a--- 05/12/2025 14:08 312 .gitconfig