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Gyandeep
Gyandeep

Reputation: 13558

Git 2.13 conditional config on windows

Git version: 2.13.0.windows.1

OS: Windows 7

CLI: Git bash

.gitconfig

[user]
    name = Gyandeep Singh
    email = [email protected]
[push]
    default = current
[core]
    autocrlf = input
[includeIf "gitdir: ~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]
    path = .gitconfig-work

.gitconfig-work

[user]
    name = Gyandeep Singh
    email = [email protected]

What happened: open CLI on a folder (example test) inside corporate folder and then run git config user.email the output is [email protected].

Expected: Outcome should be [email protected].

Am I doing something wrong or my expectation is not correct? I did follow the git docs.

Solution

You have to run git config --show-origin --get user.email on a git initialized directory. If its not git initialized then the includeIf gitdir functionality will not work.

Its strange but true. I wish it still worked.

Upvotes: 69

Views: 18527

Answers (6)

RNoB
RNoB

Reputation: 353

I mapped a directory to a drive on a windows machine with subst D: <mapped directory>. If you want to know the path of your repository you can use this command in the repository context:

git rev-parse --show-toplevel

The output was something like this:

<mapped directory>/<name of repository>

So I changed it to:

[includeIf "gitdir:<mapped directory>/"]
    path = .gitconfig-work

Now it works for me.

Upvotes: 2

studog
studog

Reputation: 1088

The OP concludes that includeIf functionality does not work in normal non-git directories.

This is provably incorrect for at least the configuration item core.sshCommand. If a conditionally included .gitconfig has a core.sshCommand configured, it is used in git clone operations in normal non-git directories.

It seems that the part that doesn't work properly is the display of conditionally included configuration. Which is quite problematic and interferes with tracking down broken configurations.

Upvotes: 0

Pawel Cioch
Pawel Cioch

Reputation: 3184

You need to turn off case sensitivity: change "gitdir:" to "gitdir/i:"

[includeIf "gitdir/i:C:/Work/"]
path = .gitconfig-work

[includeIf "gitdir/i:C:/My/Dev/"]
path = .gitconfig-my

from:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62921#issuecomment-437693020

Upvotes: 36

Alain O&#39;Dea
Alain O&#39;Dea

Reputation: 21706

There is a typo here:

[includeIf "gitdir: ~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]
path = .gitconfig-work

There should be no space after gitdir::

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]
path = .gitconfig-work

Removing it will correct the behavior within an initialized Git repository.

This will show the entire Git configuration and what Git config files it is drawn from:

git config --list --show-origin

CAVEAT: If you run this inside a Git repository it will show values from .gitconfig-work, but it will not if you are within ~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/, but outside a Git repository.

Upvotes: 10

rouble
rouble

Reputation: 18221

The accepted answer, while helpful, does not answer the question.

As of this writing, includeIf only works inside a git initialized folder.

So if you cd into "~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/somegitproject" and run the command the output will be as expected:

$ cd ~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/somegitproject
$ git config user.email
[email protected]

This is probably a defect against git, since a user would expect this to work similarly in "~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/" as well.

Upvotes: 31

raphaelstolt
raphaelstolt

Reputation: 2138

Your global C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig should have this includeIf: 

[includeIf "gitdir:C:/Users/<user-name>/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]
    path = .gitconfig-work

with having your work Git repos in C:/Users/<user-name>/Documents/webstorm/corporate and the conditional work configuration should be located at C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig-work.

That's at least working for me in Window's cmd and Cmder. A git config --show-origin --get user.email should than show you from where a config value is loaded/resolved.

It also seems like the conditional work configuration is only used when issued from within a Git repository.

C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate
λ git config --show-origin --get user.email
file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig  [email protected]

C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate\some-repo
λ git config --show-origin --get user.email
file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig-work  [email protected]

C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate\some-non-repo-dir
λ git config --show-origin --get user.email
file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig  [email protected]

Upvotes: 81

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