Re: config-file includes

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> [include-ifdef "darwin"]
>>       path = ~/.gitconfig-darwin
>
> Thanks for another concrete example.
>
> I'm not sure how that would be implemented, though. I don't think git
> knows that it is compiled for darwin. Would it just be running "uname
> -s" behind the scenes? Should it happen at runtime, or as part of the
> compile process?
>
> We could allow arbitrary shell code like:
>
>  [include-if "test `uname -s` -eq Darwin"]
>
> Very flexible, though it makes me think we are getting a little
> overboard.  And it's an extra shell invocation whenever we read the
> config, which is ugly.

I would think git could just learn a few useful defines at the time of
compile, such as e.g. OS_Darwin would be more than sufficient.

I can also give you another use use case. I keep all my work repos
under ~Work/ and I want my user.email on all those to be my work email
addy, and all other repos on my system I want to use my personal email
address. So my ~/.gitconfig has my personal email address and then 99%
of the time I forget to configure the repos under ~/Work correctly.
That said, I'm not sure how the config include would help this...

j.