From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Is there interest in reading ~/.gitconfig.d/* and /etc/gitconfig.d/*? Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <19384.17579.205005.86711@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Eli Barzilay , Peter Krefting , Git Mailing List To: =?iso-8859-15?q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 06 11:02:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz4g8-00042M-Ay for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:02:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752108Ab0DFJCb convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 05:02:31 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:16958 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751617Ab0DFJCa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 05:02:30 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so928977fgg.1 for ; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:02:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kBr/STGbF++B301+w0UkKUAH61WVSXoygUpftWhgW3E=; b=Frypj28QLTAZ22hUTj9AUTPfgEqRh3Y3t13YdNxcY4DOtVkG6DuLTJUccvC0HfMmzd 6mLOJxqKXjtFsOurKXjqxILAx/0ncQ+AzLxNj729+EdtaDMC9wouwzFk32UaRaqWaCwP oQ37vIge9vhqxXQ1vaL2fwA/v2SDZXypHtloA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Dg7Ctkls5OU2EmlpPqqJCjVMGuSm+F3AX6zO8gC1bAHvEaxEaZmu0d7Bi3wEYKymTY 4qwyaQgjMOSc/iPKxb6iCILe3XLNj8a87pEWfAoG4ng/isRfZOkpakbAkK80V8nFRgcl QusKf2f9aOFVgHDtDcXiYhQlHKC80+HB2J2Bc= Received: by 10.86.124.35 with SMTP id w35mr10627108fgc.49.1270544548281; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwr38.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.241.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm8491567fxm.1.2010.04.06.02.02.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o3691lnn025265; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:01:58 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id o3691OUY025255; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:01:24 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason writes: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 07:50, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Isn't it better to have a way to include files instead? >=20 > Probably yes. Programs like Apache HTTPD, rsyslog and others just use > ${foo}conf.d by convention by supporting config inclusion. >=20 > What would be the ideal config syntax for that? AFAICT git-config > doesn't (yet) support top-level keys so maybe this: >=20 > [INCLUDE] > path =3D ~/.gitconfig.d/* >=20 > Or if top-level support was added: >=20 > INCLUDE =3D ~/.gitconfig.d/* I think that it would be better to use include ~/.gitconfig.d/* --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git