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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: feature request - implement a "GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" equivalent, but
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:35:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nathan's installation can set a "GIT_MYSELF" and then have something
> like this in the shared $HOME/.gitconfig
> 
> 	[include]
>         	path = /usr/local/users/$GIT_MYSELF/ident
> 
> we could even make the whole thing fail when GIT_MYSELF is not set
> but I haven't thought things through ;-)

Yeah, that is something I considered[1] when writing the initial
include.path implementation. Something like:

  [include]
	path = .gitconfig-$HOSTNAME

could be potentially useful. But I punted at the time to wait for
somebody to actually ask for it. If somebody wanted to implement it, I
don't see a reason to avoid it.

-Peff

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/190196