Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Add hostname condition to includeIf

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> > Peff felt that adding `git config --show-hostname-for-includes` was
> > probably overkill, but I'd argue that it is necessary to enable users
> > to deterministically figure out the value to use in their
> > configuration rather than having to grope around in the dark via
> > guesswork and trial-and-error to figure out exactly what works.
> >
> > And the option name doesn't necessarily have to be so verbose; a
> > shorter name, such as `git config --show-hostname` may be good enough.
> > Implementing this option would also obviate the need to implement
> > `test-tool xgethostname` (though, I agree with Junio that `test-tool
> > gethostname` would have been a better, less implementation-revealing
> > name).
>
> Yeah, I like that show-hostname thing (which I do not know if "config"
> is a good home for, though).

The other possibility which came to mind was adding a GIT_HOSTNAME
variable to the output of `git var -l`.