From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:55:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: rational for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config to be "non global" or just a bug?
Message-ID: <xmqqvah4nfg8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171218142100.3mhshemnooc3sykv@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu>

Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> To complete that abstraction it seems like reading via "--global" should
>> read from both (in the same precedence order that normal config lookup
>> uses).
>
> FWIW +1 from me on that ;)

FWIW I do not have problem with that endgame.

I wonder if anybody wants to get their hands dirty.  It should be a
quite straight-forward to split a helper (or three) out of the
do_git_config_sequence() helper, but the interface from cmd_config()
to call into config.c to read a specific "class" of config file is
the same codepath as a single file, so a major part of this work
will be to design how to extend the interface to do the limited
"sequence" thing.