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Re: Is there interest in reading ~/.gitconfig.d/* and /etc/gitconfig.d/*?

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 6, 2010, 08:15 UTC
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<u2i51dd1af81004060115t5f837840z5adcf83622fa8882@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 07:50, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> wrote:
> Isn't it better to have a way to include files instead?

Probably yes. Programs like Apache HTTPD, rsyslog and others just use ${foo}conf.d by convention by supporting config inclusion.

What would be the ideal config syntax for that? AFAICT git-config doesn't (yet) support top-level keys so maybe this:

    [INCLUDE]
        path = ~/.gitconfig.d/*
Or if top-level support was added:
    INCLUDE = ~/.gitconfig.d/*
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 1, 2010
  2. Heiko VoigtApr 1, 2010
  3. Peter KreftingApr 4, 2010
  4. Eli BarzilayApr 4, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 6, 2010
  6. Jakub NarebskiApr 6, 2010
  7. Hacky version of a glob() driven config includeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 6, 2010
  8. Bert WesargMay 7, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 7, 2010
  10. Bert WesargMay 7, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 7, 2010
  12. Jacob HelwigMay 7, 2010
  13. Bert WesargMay 7, 2010
  14. Hacky version of a glob() driven config includeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 7, 2010
  15. Jakub NarebskiMay 7, 2010
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 7, 2010
  17. Jakub NarebskiMay 7, 2010
  18. Ping YinMay 8, 2010
  19. Jakub NarebskiMay 8, 2010
  20. Ping YinMay 8, 2010
  21. Jeff KingMay 8, 2010

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