--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2012 Valentin Duperray, Lucien Kong, Franck Jonas,
+# Thomas Nguy, Khoi Nguyen
+# Grenoble INP Ensimag
+#
+
+test_description='Compatibility with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ files'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'read config: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig doesn'\''t' '
+ mkdir -p .config/git &&
+ echo "[alias]" >.config/git/config &&
+ echo " myalias = !echo in_config" >>.config/git/config &&
+ echo in_config >expected &&
+ git myalias >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'read config: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
+ >.gitconfig &&
+ echo "[alias]" >.gitconfig &&
+ echo " myalias = !echo in_gitconfig" >>.gitconfig &&
+ echo in_gitconfig >expected &&
+ git myalias >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'read with --get: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig doesn'\''t' '
+ rm .gitconfig &&
+ echo "[user]" >.config/git/config &&
+ echo " name = read_config" >>.config/git/config &&
+ echo read_config >expected &&
+ git config --get user.name >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'read with --get: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
+ >.gitconfig &&
+ echo "[user]" >.gitconfig &&
+ echo " name = read_gitconfig" >>.gitconfig &&
+ echo read_gitconfig >expected &&
+ git config --get user.name >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'read with --list: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig doesn'\''t' '
+ rm .gitconfig &&
+ echo user.name=read_config >expected &&
+ git config --global --list >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_expect_success 'read with --list: xdg file exists and ~/.gitconfig exists' '
+ >.gitconfig &&
+ echo "[user]" >.gitconfig &&
+ echo " name = read_gitconfig" >>.gitconfig &&
+ echo user.name=read_gitconfig >expected &&
+ git config --global --list >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+
+test_done