On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:37:10AM -0800, Jim Garrison wrote: > I have found that `git config --global` does not pick up any include > directives in the git config file. That's by design. You asked for the entries in a specific file, and we do not follow any includes by default in that case. You can use `--include` if you want to follow includes. The documentation is quite misleading here, though. Here's a patch. -- >8 -- Subject: git-config: better document default behavior for `--include` As described in the commit message of 9b25a0b (config: add include directive, 2012-02-06), the `--include` option is only on by default in some cases. But our documentation described it as just "defaults to on", which doesn't tell the whole story. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-config.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 9dfa1a5..d42c062 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ See also <<FILES>>. --[no-]includes:: Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up - values. Defaults to on. + values. Defaults to `off` when a specific file is given (e.g., + using `--file`, `--global`, etc) and `on` when searching all + config files. [[FILES]] FILES -- 2.2.1.425.g441bb3c -- 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