On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:32, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:02:52AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:37, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > This patch introduces an include directive for config files. >> > It looks like: >> > >> > [include] >> > path = /path/to/file >> >> Very nice, I'd been meaning to resurrect my gitconfig.d series, and >> this series implements a lot of the structural changes needed for that >> sort of thing. > > Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do. It could make life > easier for package managers (I think the only reason it has not come up > much is that there simply isn't a lot of third-party git config). > >> What do you think of an option (e.g. include.gitconfig_d = true) that >> would cause git to look in: >> >> /etc/gitconfig.d/* >> ~/.gitconfig.d/* >> .git/config.d/* > > Hmm. Is that really worth having an option? I.e., why not just always > check those directories? You're right, always just including those directories is a much better option, an extra stat() doesn't cost us much. Thanks again for working on this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html