Re: Feature request: read git config from parent directory

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2016, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AgbGXvMC0XWSPuBHEveJfJFEYUgghDC1Yc7Eka1Dyd8Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3881793.6JIRvg1BPW@ylum>

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> wrote:

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> Hello
>
> I use the same machine for work and open-source contribution. In both cases, I
> deal with a lot of repositories. Depending on whether I commit for work or
> open-source activities, I must use a different mail address. I used to setup
> work address for each work repo in git local config, but this is no longer
> practical.

Sounds like the same problem I have (and the reason I came up with conditional include [1]). Would that work for you (check out the example part in that patch)?

It's not supported yet. I'll need to address a few comments in the future reroll.

[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20160712164216.24072-1-pclouds@gmail.com/

> Since I use different directories for work and open-source, would it be
> possible for git to read irs config also from parent directories ? I.e. setup
> git to read config from ./.git/config then ../.gitconfig, ../../gitconfig until
> global ~/.gitconfig.

-- 
Duy