From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS3215 2.6.0.0/16 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from out1.vger.email (out1.vger.email [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:20]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7946A1F910 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231561AbiKUXcP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:32:15 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42942 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230063AbiKUXcN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:32:13 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [104.130.231.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AC23D9065 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13236 invoked by uid 109); 21 Nov 2022 23:32:12 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:32:12 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 29055 invoked by uid 111); 21 Nov 2022 23:32:12 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:32:12 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:32:11 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Phillip Wood , Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: introduce an Operating System-specific `includeIf` condition Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:19:48PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > It is relatively common for users to maintain identical `~/.gitconfig` > files across all of their setups, using the `includeIf` construct > liberally to adjust the settings to the respective setup as needed. This seems like a reasonable thing to have in general, but I wonder if you have an example of how people use this. Mostly I am wondering: - is it sometimes a misuse, where users _think_ that the OS is correlated with some feature of Git. And they would be better off with some flag like "does the current platform support fsmonitor". - for cases where it really is "uname -s" the best differentiator? Or would they commonly want to lump FreeBSD and Linux into the same category, or to tell the difference between Debian versus Fedora? -Peff