Re: Multiple --global config workspaces?

> On Oct 11, 2022, at 12:55 PM, Elsie Hupp <git@elsiehupp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Junio, Reto, Jeff, Philip, et al,
> 
> Cool, thanks!
> 
> I was using the “Git Book” documentation, not the manpage, since (a) the “Git Book” is more user-friendly, and (b) it’s higher on the DuckDuckGo results for “git config", i.e.:
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> https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
> 
> Even then, I don’t see includeIf in the first two web-based versions of the manpage for the DuckDuckGo query "man git-config":
> 
> https://linux.die.net/man/1/git-config
> https://manpages.org/git-config
> 
> Though includeIf does appear in the manpage on my local system, as well as in the web-based Arch manpage (which is the fifth result):
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> https://man.archlinux.org/man/git-config.1
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> And includeIf does appear in the official documentation (which is the first DuckDuckGo result for "man git-config”—I much prefer web mirrors to using man in the terminal):
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> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes
> 
> So in summary it seems like a big part the issue I had is that the documentation for conditional includes has somewhat lacking SEO, i.e. if someone is familiar with the --global config keywords and googles that, they are unlikely to find the section for conditional includes. And, additionally, conditional includes are a new enough feature that they don’t appear in the higher-ranking web-based manpages, neither of which display the version of Git they pertain to. (Maybe someone could poke them about this, but I’m not sure the best way of doing so.)
> 
> As an aside, looking through the full documentation I see that I can also do:
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> [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://github.com/**”] path = ./Repositories/github/.gitconfig
> [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://gitlab.com/**”] path =  ./Repositories/gitlab/.gitconfig
> 
> And, conveniently, [includeIf "gitdir:github/“] also expands to [includeIf “gitdir:**/github/“], so I don’t have to specify [includeIf "gitdir:~/Repositories/github/“]. (I’m not sure how to represent the trailing slash in bash syntax, but it helps, too!)
> 
> Something more consistent with my initial use case might be a hypothetical feature like the following (apologies for dubious syntax):
> 
> [user "gitdir:github/"]
> 	email = "elsiehupp.github@example.com"
> 
> Or something like:
> 
> if "gitdir:gitlab/" email = "elsiehupp.gitlab@example.com”
> 
> In other words, part of the discoverability issue is that I wasn’t looking for a conditional _include_ so much as a conditional statement more generally.
> 
> I also tried:
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> [include] path = $GIT_COMMON_DIR/../.gitconfig
> 
> …only to discover that $GIT_COMMON_DIR is not set automatically. Is there some way of automatically describing a path relative to any given cloned Git repository?
> 
> And I tried the following to no avail (despite both paths resolving when using cat):
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> [includeIf "gitdir:github/"] path = ./**/github/.gitconfig
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> [includeIf "gitdir:github/"] path = ./*/github/.gitconfig
> 
> So it would be nice if in addition to being able to use bash wildcards in [includeIf “gitdir”] one could use bash wildcards in inclusion paths, as well.
> 
> I guess for the time being what I’ll stick with is this:
> 
> [includeIf "gitdir:github/"] path = ./Repositories/github/.gitconfig
> [includeIf "gitdir:gitlab/"] path = ./Repositories/gitlab/.gitconfig
> 
> Best,
> Elsie Hupp