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From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: gitconfig includes
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:40:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALO-gutW80d6RLdXAtYA2m2GWOchAjNNPy3YCsr31_fCss512g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I just noticed something weird: if I have this in my ~/.gitconfig:

    [x]
      x = global
    [include]
      path = .gitconfig.more

and .gitconfig.more has

    [x]
      x = more

then I get:

1. git config x.x                      =>  more
2. git config --global x.x             =>  global
3. git config --global --includes x.x  =>  more

The first works as I expected.  The second surprised me, since I took
"--global" to mean "the global file and stuff it includes" (that's my
understanding of the description of `include`).  The third is fine, but
it made me even more surprised at the second, especially since the man
blurb on --includes says "Defaults to on."...

So this is at least a documentation issue, though I hope that #2 is a
bug and that it *should* return "more"...?

-- 
                   ((x=>x(x))(x=>x(x)))                  Eli Barzilay:
                   http://barzilay.org/                  Maze is Life!

             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-29 19:40 Eli Barzilay [this message]
2016-11-29 19:46 ` gitconfig includes Junio C Hamano
2016-11-29 19:53   ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-29 21:46     ` Jeff King
2016-11-29 21:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-11-30 18:54         ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-30 19:06           ` Jeff King
2016-11-30 19:42             ` Eli Barzilay

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