On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:31:14PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > On 2017-05-11 20:53, Raphael Stolt wrote: > > > I might have stumbled this time over a real bug in includeIf / conditional includes or maybe it's just as intended. > > 1) Given I have a correct configured includeIf and I’m issuing `git config --show-origin --get user.email` against an directory which hasn’t been `git init`ed I get the user.email configured globally. > > I don't think that's a bug surprise: The condition in the conditional > include is "gitdir:". Before running "git init", it simply *is* no > gitdir. Yeah, I think all is working as intended. A "cwd:" conditional seems like it would be useful, but I think it would have a lot of corner cases. It may change over the course of a program, and you have weirdness with things like "git --git-dir=/some/other/path", where your cwd and the git repository you're looking at are totally unrelated. -Peff