Feature request: read git config from parent directory

Feature request: read git config from parent directory

[Dominique Dumont]

Hello

I use the same machine for work and open-source contribution. In both cases, I 
deal with a lot of repositories. Depending on whether I commit for work or 
open-source activities, I must use a different mail address. I used to setup 
work address for each work repo in git local config, but this is no longer 
practical.

Since I use different directories for work and open-source, would it be 
possible for git to read irs config also from parent directories ? I.e. setup 
git to read config from ./.git/config then ../.gitconfig, ../../gitconfig until 
global ~/.gitconfig.

All the best

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Re: Feature request: read git config from parent directory

[Duy Nguyen]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I use the same machine for work and open-source contribution. In both cases, I
> deal with a lot of repositories. Depending on whether I commit for work or
> open-source activities, I must use a different mail address. I used to setup
> work address for each work repo in git local config, but this is no longer
> practical.

Sounds like the same problem I have (and the reason I came up with
conditional include [1]). Would that work for you (check out the
example part in that patch)?

It's not supported yet. I'll need to address a few comments in the
future reroll.

[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20160712164216.24072-1-pclouds@gmail.com/

> Since I use different directories for work and open-source, would it be
> possible for git to read irs config also from parent directories ? I.e. setup
> git to read config from ./.git/config then ../.gitconfig, ../../gitconfig until
> global ~/.gitconfig.
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Re: Feature request: read git config from parent directory

[Dominique Dumont]

On Friday, 9 December 2016 19:38:05 CET Duy Nguyen wrote:
> >> Sounds like the same problem I have (and the reason I came up with
> >> conditional include [1]). Would that work for you (check out the
> >> example part in that patch)?
> > 
> > If I understand correcly, I would need to set up config include in each
> > git
> > repository. This is as much work as setting up user.email in the same
> > place.
> 
> Well, no. You set this up in ~/.gitconfig. If you need to add some
> settings in /abc/def/.gitconfig and expect repositories in this path
> to reach it via the parent chain, then you could write something like
> 
> [include "gitdir:/abc/def/"]
> file = your-config-file
> 
> in ~/.gitconfig and achieve the same effect, because all repos will
> read ~/.gitconfig, and if it finds out the repo's location is inside
> /abc/def, your-config-file will be loaded. It could contain email
> settings or whatever.
> 
> So, instead of spreading .gitconfig files around and relying on
> parent-chain to reach them, you write a few filter rules in
> ~/.gitconfig to tell all the repos what to load.

oh... yes, that would solve my problem and have no impact on other user who 
don't need this feature. 

I do hope that the improvement you proposed will be merged.

Thanks for the explanation.

All the best

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