Re: git silently ignores include directive with single quotes

From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Date: Sep 10, 2018, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID: <b6446834-04e1-ca65-350e-5847e689e2ea@stason.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1sa1tb4p.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

To add another report of a similar problem, of silent skipping and not of filepath quoting, I found this one:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31203634/git-clean-filter-python-script-on-windows/52264440#52264440

The user created .gitconfig and added to .git/config:

[include]
    path = .gitconfig

Not realizing that the two were not in the same folder. And probably assuming that .git/config was referring to the root of repository, and not relative to .git/, which is a reasonable assumption.

Of course he had no way of resolving this as git wasn't telling him where it wasn't finding the file. i.e.

Can't find: ~/myrepo/.git/.gitconfig

which would have instantly told him where the problem was.

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