Re: includeIf appears to not be working

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 12, 2022, 20:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Y5eVTrK2CO0h5BPl@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <8316344.DvuYhMxLoT@hosanna>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:19:41AM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

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> Contents of ~/.gitconfig (truncated):
> 
> [user]
>         name = Joshua Kugler
>         email = joshua@personal.com
> [includIf "gitdir:~/repos/work/"]
>         path = ~/repos/work/gitconfig

Maybe a dumb question, but is this cut-and-paste verbatim? If so, then perhaps s/includ/include/ would help?

With that change, your example works for me.

> Like I said, I've set this up before, and had it working. I don't know what 
> I'm doing differently/wrong...but would be happy to be told so.

If it's not the typo, then possibly there are symlinks involved? We'll run realpath() on the repository directory before matching, so your pattern needs to take that into account.

> Is there a debug command which can show if the gitdir is/isn't
> matching like I thought it should?  What other command output could
> help debug this?

No, there's no debug/tracing code for this feature. You'd have to run it under gdb (break on the include_by_gitdir function).

-Peff