Re: config-file includes

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

[include-ifdef "darwin"]
      path = ~/.gitconfig-darwin

Thanks for another concrete example.

I'm not sure how that would be implemented, though. I don't think git
knows that it is compiled for darwin. Would it just be running "uname
-s" behind the scenes? Should it happen at runtime, or as part of the
compile process?

We could allow arbitrary shell code like:

 [include-if "test `uname -s` -eq Darwin"]

Very flexible, though it makes me think we are getting a little
overboard.  And it's an extra shell invocation whenever we read the
config, which is ugly.

I would think git could just learn a few useful defines at the time of
compile, such as e.g. OS_Darwin would be more than sufficient.

I can also give you another use use case. I keep all my work repos
under ~Work/ and I want my user.email on all those to be my work email
addy, and all other repos on my system I want to use my personal email
address. So my ~/.gitconfig has my personal email address and then 99%
of the time I forget to configure the repos under ~/Work correctly.
That said, I'm not sure how the config include would help this...

j.