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From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git silently ignores include directive with single quotes
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:52:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6446834-04e1-ca65-350e-5847e689e2ea@stason.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1sa1tb4p.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

To add another report of a similar problem, of silent skipping and not
of filepath quoting, I found this one:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31203634/git-clean-filter-python-script-on-windows/52264440#52264440

The user created .gitconfig and added to .git/config:

[include]
    path = .gitconfig

Not realizing that the two were not in the same folder. And probably
assuming that .git/config was referring to the root of repository, and
not relative to .git/, which is a reasonable assumption.

Of course he had no way of resolving this as git wasn't telling him
where it wasn't finding the file. i.e.

Can't find: ~/myrepo/.git/.gitconfig

which would have instantly told him where the problem was.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-08 18:58 git silently ignores include directive with single quotes Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:30 ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-08 19:44   ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:53   ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:02     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:13       ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:28         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:58           ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-09  2:51         ` Paul Smith
2018-09-09  2:57           ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 19:54   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 20:04     ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-08 20:16       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-08 21:14     ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 22:10       ` Ramsay Jones
2018-09-09  2:33         ` Jeff King
2018-09-11 20:36           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-11 20:57             ` Jeff King
2018-09-23 22:48               ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 21:08                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-24 23:20                   ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 22:24                 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Philip Oakley
2018-09-24 23:05                   ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-24 22:24                 ` [PATCH 1/1] config doc: highlight the name=value syntax Philip Oakley
2018-09-25 22:03                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-08 22:32       ` git silently ignores include directive with single quotes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-09  2:29         ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 21:22 ` Jeff King
2018-09-08 22:49   ` Stas Bekman
2018-09-09  2:30     ` Jeff King
2018-09-10 17:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 17:14     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-10 18:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 18:35         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-10 19:17           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-10 19:52             ` Stas Bekman [this message]
2018-09-10 20:10               ` Junio C Hamano

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