Re: Is it possible to use new conditional includes outside of git dir?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Mihails Strasuns
[off-list ref] wrote:

I was very excited to try out new conditional include feature but have
quickly found out that it doesn't work with some of my custom scripts
because of the following behaviour:

# .gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
path = ~/.gitconfig.work
[user]
name1 = Someone

# .gitconfig.work
[user]
name2 = SomeoneElse
$ cd ~/work; git config user.name1 # "Someone"
$ cd ~/work ; git config user.name2 # <nothing>

I see that it matches current `git config` documentation - indeed, it
mentions only matching on git directory and not arbitrary file path. I
wonder though, if this limitation is intentional and what is the
rationale behind it?

It's intentional, but in the "that's how this works" sense, not "we'll
never add what you just asked for".

This came up on list last week:
https://public-inbox.org/git/F55DC360-9C1E-45B9-B8BA-39E1001BD620@gmail.com/T/#u

So I'd like to ask you the same question I asked Raphael in that thread.