Re: config-file includes

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 26, 2011, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20110926200553.GA492@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110926192126.GA55743@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:21:27PM +0200, David Aguilar wrote:

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> > >    [include-ifdef "has-pager-scripts"]
> > >    path = ~/.gitconfig-pager
> > >
> > >    where "has-pager-scripts" would be a magic flag compiled into git
> > >    versions that understand that config.
> > 
> > But how far would you go with conditional expressions?
> 
> This syntax is simple yet would solve one problem I run into
> often.  It could be used for the case where some settings
> (e.g. diff.tool, merge.tool) are different on OS X and Linux.
> 
> [include-ifdef "darwin"]
> 	path = ~/.gitconfig-darwin

Thanks for another concrete example.

I'm not sure how that would be implemented, though. I don't think git knows that it is compiled for darwin. Would it just be running "uname -s" behind the scenes? Should it happen at runtime, or as part of the compile process?

We could allow arbitrary shell code like:

  [include-if "test `uname -s` -eq Darwin"]

Very flexible, though it makes me think we are getting a little overboard. And it's an extra shell invocation whenever we read the config, which is ugly.

-Peff