# Fwd: Q: use '-C' flag with 'git config --global' 4 messages from 2020-04-06 to 2020-04-06. Participants: Tomáš Procházka, Jeff King, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/53168 ## Tomáš Procházka, 2020-04-06 08:48 Subject: Fwd: Q: use '-C' flag with 'git config --global' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CA%2BSgv42bOAaRBX99EpgpnSkGXFCWFpED7hwdwkWmPSOKuL1VBg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, I'm running into issue that if I run `git -C config --global user.email` I don't get expected email. Expected: tomas.prochazka@showmax.com Got: tomas.prochazka5d@gmail.com My config contains a little catch: ~/.gitconfig ˋˋˋ [user] name = Tomáš Procházka email = tomas.prochazka5d@gmail.com [includeIf "gitdir:~/Workspace/Showmax/"] path = ~/Workspace/Showmax/.gitconfig ˋˋˋ ~/Workspace/Showmax/.gitconfig ˋˋˋ [user] name = Tomáš Procházka email = tomas.prochazka@showmax.com ˋˋˋ I get correct email setting if I run command without `--global` flag. But What I understand from the [`git-config` docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_description) if no flag is passed the values are read from system, global and local. If I run commands one by one, No returns the ~correct~ expected email: ~ $ git -C config --system user.email ~ $ git -C config --global user.email tomas.prochazka5d@gmail.com ~ $ git -C config --local user.email Am I missing something? Thanks for the answer. Regards Tomáš Procházka ``` ## Jeff King, 2020-04-06 13:05 Subject: Re: Fwd: Q: use '-C' flag with 'git config --global' Message-ID: <20200406130524.GA1276@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200406130524.GA1276%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:48:06AM +0200, Tomáš Procházka wrote: > [includeIf "gitdir:~/Workspace/Showmax/"] > path = ~/Workspace/Showmax/.gitconfig > [...] > I get correct email setting if I run command without `--global` flag. > But What I understand from the [`git-config` > docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_description) if no flag is > passed the values are read from system, global and local. Right, I'd expect that to work, but... > If I run commands one by one, No returns the ~correct~ expected email: > > ~ $ git -C config --system user.email > ~ $ git -C config --global user.email > tomas.prochazka5d@gmail.com > ~ $ git -C config --local user.email There's another difference when asking to read from a specific file: includes are not turned on by default. Try git -C ... config --global --includes user.email This is covered briefly in git-config(1): --[no-]includes Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g., using --file, --global, etc) and on when searching all config files. This can be confusing, but was necessary to keep compatibility with scripted manipulations of those files when includes were introduced. -Peff ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2020-04-06 18:01 Subject: Re: Fwd: Q: use '-C' flag with 'git config --global' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq4ktwwl1g.fsf%40gitster.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: <20200406130524.GA1276@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` Jeff King writes: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:48:06AM +0200, Tomáš Procházka wrote: > >> [includeIf "gitdir:~/Workspace/Showmax/"] >> path = ~/Workspace/Showmax/.gitconfig >> [...] >> I get correct email setting if I run command without `--global` flag. >> But What I understand from the [`git-config` >> docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_description) if no flag is >> passed the values are read from system, global and local. > > Right, I'd expect that to work, but... > >> If I run commands one by one, No returns the ~correct~ expected email: >> >> ~ $ git -C config --system user.email >> ~ $ git -C config --global user.email >> tomas.prochazka5d@gmail.com >> ~ $ git -C config --local user.email > > There's another difference when asking to read from a specific file: > includes are not turned on by default. Try > > git -C ... config --global --includes user.email > > This is covered briefly in git-config(1): > > --[no-]includes > Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. > Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g., using --file, > --global, etc) and on when searching all config files. > > This can be confusing, but was necessary to keep compatibility with > scripted manipulations of those files when includes were introduced. So, in short, the mention of -C in the report was red herring and it was all about --(system|global|local)? ``` ## Jeff King, 2020-04-06 18:05 Subject: Re: Fwd: Q: use '-C' flag with 'git config --global' Message-ID: <20200406180508.GA23427@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200406180508.GA23427%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:01:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > There's another difference when asking to read from a specific file: > > includes are not turned on by default. Try > > > > git -C ... config --global --includes user.email > > > > This is covered briefly in git-config(1): > > > > --[no-]includes > > Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. > > Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g., using --file, > > --global, etc) and on when searching all config files. > > > > This can be confusing, but was necessary to keep compatibility with > > scripted manipulations of those files when includes were introduced. > > So, in short, the mention of -C in the report was red herring and it > was all about --(system|global|local)? Yes. It's relevant insofar as being in the repo to trigger the conditional include, but "cd" would also have sufficed for that. :) -Peff ```