Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: add include directive

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2012, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX5_qjC6WZsZ9hKvSR5vQJPs=jgWn-R4EnWZGVq+RvjRyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120126073752.GA30474@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
> It looks like:
>
>  [include]
>    path = /path/to/file

Very nice, I'd been meaning to resurrect my gitconfig.d series, and this series implements a lot of the structural changes needed for that sort of thing.

What do you think of an option (e.g. include.gitconfig_d = true) that would cause git to look in:

    /etc/gitconfig.d/*
    ~/.gitconfig.d/*
    .git/config.d/*

As well as the usual:

    /etc/gitconfig
    ~/.gitconfig
    .git/config

It would make including third-party config easy since you could just symlink it in, and it would follow the convention of a lot of other programs that have a foo and a foo.d directory.