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Re: Git config not working correctly with included configurations

From
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Apr 12, 2016, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20160412130236.GA11013@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To
<assp.0910338c53.570CDB33.9020300@itflex.com.br>
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:25:39AM -0300, Rudinei Goi Roecker wrote:
> I'm having a problem with included configurations in ~/.gitconfig, when 
> using this command:
> 
> git config --global user.email
> It doesn't return anything, in commits it works as intended. The 
> configuration looks like this:
I think you need:
	git config --global --includes user.email
or simply:
	git config user.email

See the documentation of the --includes and --no-includes options in git-config(1).

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