includeIf appears to not be working

So, I've set up includeIf before, and have had it working, but it seems to not be working in my latest attempt.

This is git 2.38.2 on Ubuntu Linux 20.04.

Contents of ~/.gitconfig (truncated):

[user]
        name = Joshua Kugler
        email = joshua@personal.com
[includIf "gitdir:~/repos/work/"]
        path = ~/repos/work/gitconfig

Contents of ~/repos/work/gitconfig:

[user]
        name = Joshua Kugler
        email = joshua@work.io

Now, if I do this:

cd /home/jkugler/repos/work/some_repo

and run:

$ git config --show-origin --get user.email file:/home/jkugler/.gitconfig joshua@personal.com

Like I said, I've set this up before, and had it working. I don't know what I'm doing differently/wrong...but would be happy to be told so.

Is there a debug command which can show if the gitdir is/isn't matching like I thought it should? What other command output could help debug this?

Thanks!

j

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 3:36 PM Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@azariah.com> wrote:

Missing "e" in "includeIf".

All -

Yep, that was copy/paste verbatim, and yep, that was the issue.

Thank you to all who spotted the missing "e". Siiiiigh. I looked at that so many times, and didn't even see it.

Sorry to waste your time, and I much appreciate the quick response!

j

On Monday, December 12, 2022 11:54:48 AM AKST Eric Sunshine wrote:

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:19:41AM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

Maybe a dumb question, but is this cut-and-paste verbatim? If so, then perhaps s/includ/include/ would help?

With that change, your example works for me.

If it's not the typo, then possibly there are symlinks involved? We'll run realpath() on the repository directory before matching, so your pattern needs to take that into account.

No, there's no debug/tracing code for this feature. You'd have to run it under gdb (break on the include_by_gitdir function).

-Peff

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

Oh, one other command you could try:

  git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir

while in the repository in question. I think that would do the same normalization of the path (including resolving symlinks). So that would tell you what Git should be matching against.

-Peff