Re: Git Conditional Includes Question (possible bug?)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2021, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlfcbs69z.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <1E4AB5E8-DD46-45CA-9A3F-C49F115BE0D4@coltonhurst.com>

Colton Hurst <colton@coltonhurst.com> writes:

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> [Expectation] When I run `cd ~/colton/github/coltonhurst.com`
> (this is a valid git repo) and then run `git config user.email`, I
> expect ‘colton@coltonhurst.com’ will be returned.
>
> [Actual Result] When I run `cd ~/colton/github/coltonhurst.com`
> (this is a valid git repo) and then run `git config user.email`,
> nothing is returned.

The relevant part of the per-user config are

> [user]
> 	name = Colton Hurst

This is not conditional, and applies when you are in the repository.

> [includeIf "gitdir:~/colton/github"]
> 	path = ~/colton/github/.gitconfig

This is conditional, and applies when you are in a repository whose ".git" location matches the glob pattern "~/colton/github". The location in question is "~/colton/github/coltonhurst.com", which does not match the pattern, so it would be skipped.

> [includeIf "gitdir:~/colton/sourcehut"]
> 	path = ~/colton/sourcehut/.gitconfig

Likewise.

So, nobody sets user.email in your example. Isn't it expected that nothing is returned?

I wonder what happens when the second one is updated to

> [includeIf "gitdir:~/colton/github/"]
> 	path = ~/colton/github/.gitconfig

as "git config --help" says:

 * If the pattern ends with `/`, `**` will be automatically added. For
   example, the pattern `foo/` becomes `foo/**`. In other words, it
   matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.

and "~/colton/github/**" as a pattern would match the path to the repository in question.