Re: includeIf appears to not be working

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 12, 2022, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <Y5eVsb8rIH9TFgIj@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Y5eVTrK2CO0h5BPl@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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> > 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).

Oh, one other command you could try:

  git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir

while in the repository in question. I think that would do the same normalization of the path (including resolving symlinks). So that would tell you what Git should be matching against.

-Peff