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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2017, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX7-Gw7G7yY=ah6AQCJKzWKB002iAo6RNJwZmvMRe4Pd+w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F55DC360-9C1E-45B9-B8BA-39E1001BD620@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Raphael Stolt <raphael.stolt@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi there,
>
> 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.
> 2) Given I have a correct configured includeIf and I’m issuing `git config --show-origin --get user.email` against an directory which has been `git init`ed I get the user.email configured conditionally.
> For 1) I would probably expect to get the user.email configured conditionally even for a plain directory.
>
> More details see this (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43919191/git-2-13-conditional-config-on-windows/) Stack Overflow question.
> Best regards,
> Raphael Stolt

The "this is how this works" has been covered already by others, but can you elaborate on the use-case, why does it matter for you that "git config" doesn't show your user.email when you have no git dir there, I can't think of a reason for why this would matter since there's no .git there, so there's no way anything can use the config info at that location.