Re: [PATCH 1/4] config: add include directive

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:02:52AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:37, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

 [include]
   path = /path/to/file

Very nice, I'd been meaning to resurrect my gitconfig.d series, and
this series implements a lot of the structural changes needed for that
sort of thing.

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do. It could make life
easier for package managers (I think the only reason it has not come up
much is that there simply isn't a lot of third-party git config).

What do you think of an option (e.g. include.gitconfig_d = true) that
would cause git to look in:

    /etc/gitconfig.d/*
    ~/.gitconfig.d/*
    .git/config.d/*

Hmm. Is that really worth having an option? I.e., why not just always
check those directories?

I could see having

  [include]
        dir = /path/to/gitconfig.d

for non-standard directories, though (or perhaps even simpler, the
"path" directive should auto-detect a file versus a directory. Similarly
the "ref" form could detect and expand a tree).

-Peff