From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:16:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: add include directive
Message-ID: <4F2119E6.8010109@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120126073752.GA30474@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 1/26/2012 8:37, schrieb Jeff King:
> This patch introduces an include directive for config files.

Nice. I haven't had a need for it, yet, but the concept looks good.

> +test_expect_success 'recursive relative paths' '
> +	mkdir subdir &&
> +	echo "[test]three = 3" >subdir/three &&
> +	echo "[include]path = three" >subdir/two &&
> +	echo "[include]path = subdir/two" >base &&
> +	echo 3 >expect &&
> +	git config -f base test.three >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'

Isn't it rather "chained relative paths"? Recursive would be if I write

  [include]path = .gitconfig

in my ~/.gitconfig. What happens in this case?

-- Hannes