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Re: Possible bug in includeIf / conditional includes on non git initialised directories

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
May 11, 2017, 20:31 UTC
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On 2017-05-11 20:53, Raphael Stolt wrote:
> I might have stumbled this time over a real bug in includeIf / conditional includes or maybe it's just as intended.
> 1) Given I have a correct configured includeIf and I’m issuing `git config --show-origin --get user.email` against an directory which hasn’t been `git init`ed I get the user.email configured globally.
I don't think that's a bug surprise: The condition in the conditional include is "gitdir:". Before running "git init", it simply *is* no gitdir.
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Sebastian Schuberth
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