From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Cox\, Michael" <mhcox@bluezoosoftware•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How should git-config include.path option work in ~/.gitconfig file?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:36:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqegyfcyuo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140621100803.GB16599@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:08:03 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> ... Recently we discussed supporting environment
> variables in expansions of path-oriented config variables. So something
> like:
>
> [include]
> path = $GIT_DIR/../.gitremotes
>
> would do what you want. We'd have to give some thought on what that
> should do when $GIT_DIR is not set (e.g., when you run a git command
> outside of a repository). I'd be inclined to say that such an include
> should be ignored (the naive shell interpretation would be to look for
> "/../.gitremotes", which is almost certainly not what the user wants).
I agree with everything in the above paragraph.
Thanks for forwarding.
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2014-06-21 10:08 ` How should git-config include.path option work in ~/.gitconfig file? Jeff King
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2014-06-23 17:29 ` Jeff King
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