Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: add include directive

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:02:52AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
> > It looks like:
> >
> >  [include]
> >    path = /path/to/file
> 
> Very nice, I'd been meaning to resurrect my gitconfig.d series, and
> this series implements a lot of the structural changes needed for that
> sort of thing.

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do. It could make life
easier for package managers (I think the only reason it has not come up
much is that there simply isn't a lot of third-party git config).

> What do you think of an option (e.g. include.gitconfig_d = true) that
> would cause git to look in:
> 
>     /etc/gitconfig.d/*
>     ~/.gitconfig.d/*
>     .git/config.d/*

Hmm. Is that really worth having an option? I.e., why not just always
check those directories?

I could see having

  [include]
        dir = /path/to/gitconfig.d

for non-standard directories, though (or perhaps even simpler, the
"path" directive should auto-detect a file versus a directory. Similarly
the "ref" form could detect and expand a tree).

-Peff