Re: Bug with git-config includeIf

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de> writes:

> [includeIf "gitdir:~/dev/work/"]
>     path = ~/config/git/gitconfig_work   
> ```
>
> That means, from my understanding, that all git repositories in ~/dev/work 
> should now have the work-related email address set.
>
> If I go to ~/dev/work/somerepo and `git config --get user.email` it indeed 
> shows the expected email address.

The pattern given to "gitdir:" ends with "/" and implicitly "**" is
added after it.  If "~/dev/work/somerepo" is a repository, going
there and "git rev-parse --git-dir" would say ".git" or
"~/dev/work/somerepo/.git", then the includeIf should trigger.

> But if I go to a subdirectory in that repository, the very same command shows 
> the private email address, and commits get written with that private email 
> address.

I use exactly the same configuration (not for working on this
project, though), and your symptom does not reproduce for me, which
puzzles me.  I go to an equivelent of your ~/dev/work/somerepo/subdir
and "git rev-parse --git-dir" would still report an equivalent of
your "~/dev/work/somerepo/.git", and my "git config --show-origin user.name"
does point at the value of "includeIf.gitdir:~/dev/work/.path".

I wonder what the difference of the set-up is.  

My ~/dev/work/somerepo/.git equivalent is a directory.  Perhas yours
is not?  That should not cause any difference and it is merely a
guess in the dark.