From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
sschuberth@gmail.com,
"Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] config: add conditional include
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:08:16 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29A09E4EDB1F4F4D9E77E67A7A8A33FF@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170224131425.32409-2-pclouds@gmail.com
From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
> Sometimes a set of repositories want to share configuration settings
> among themselves that are distinct from other such sets of repositories.
> A user may work on two projects, each of which have multiple
> repositories, and use one user.email for one project while using another
> for the other.
>
> Setting $GIT_DIR/.config works, but if the penalty of forgetting to
> update $GIT_DIR/.config is high (especially when you end up cloning
> often), it may not be the best way to go. Having the settings in
> ~/.gitconfig, which would work for just one set of repositories, would
> not well in such a situation. Having separate ${HOME}s may add more
> problems than it solves.
>
> Extend the include.path mechanism that lets a config file include
> another config file, so that the inclusion can be done only when some
> conditions hold. Then ~/.gitconfig can say "include config-project-A
> only when working on project-A" for each project A the user works on.
>
> In this patch, the only supported grouping is based on $GIT_DIR (in
> absolute path), so you would need to group repositories by directory, or
> something like that to take advantage of it.
>
> We already have include.path for unconditional includes. This patch goes
> with includeIf.<condition>.path to make it clearer that a condition is
> required. The new config has the same backward compatibility approach as
> include.path: older git versions that don't understand includeIf will
> simply ignore them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/config.txt | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> config.c | 97
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> t/t1305-config-include.sh | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 214 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 015346c417..6c0cd2a273 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -91,6 +91,56 @@ found at the location of the include directive. If the
> value of the
> relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was
> found. See below for examples.
>
> +Conditional includes
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +You can include one config file from another conditionally by setting
On first reading I thought this implied you can only have one `includeIf`
within the config file.
I think it is meant to mean that each `includeIf`could include one other
file, and that users can have multiple `includeIf` lines.
> +a `includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be
> +included. The variable's value is treated the same way as `include.path`.
> +
--
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-24 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 12:23 [PATCH v5 0/1] Conditional config include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-23 12:23 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-23 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24 9:37 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-24 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-26 6:07 ` Jeff King
2017-02-27 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-06 22:44 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-07 8:47 ` Jeff King
2017-03-07 18:39 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-24 13:14 ` [PATCH v6 0/1] Conditional config include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-24 13:14 ` [PATCH v6 1/1] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-24 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24 19:48 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-02-24 22:08 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2017-02-26 3:02 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-26 12:27 ` Philip Oakley
2017-02-24 13:14 ` [PATCH v6 0/1] Conditional config include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-24 13:18 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-24 13:14 ` [PATCH v6 1/1] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-02-26 6:12 ` Jeff King
2017-03-01 11:26 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] Conditional config include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-03-01 11:26 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] config.txt: clarify multiple key values in include.path Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-03-01 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-01 11:26 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] config.txt: reflow the second include.path paragraph Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-03-01 11:26 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] config: add conditional include Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2017-03-01 17:16 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-03-01 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 6:30 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 22:24 ` Jeff King
2017-03-01 17:52 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] Conditional config include Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 6:33 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 9:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-03-03 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03 22:22 ` Jeff King
2017-03-03 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
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