On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Raphael Stolt <raphael.stolt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > 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. > 2) Given I have a correct configured includeIf and I’m issuing `git config --show-origin --get user.email` against an directory which has been `git init`ed I get the user.email configured conditionally. > For 1) I would probably expect to get the user.email configured conditionally even for a plain directory. > > More details see this (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43919191/git-2-13-conditional-config-on-windows/) Stack Overflow question. > Best regards, > Raphael Stolt The "this is how this works" has been covered already by others, but can you elaborate on the use-case, why does it matter for you that "git config" doesn't show your user.email when you have no git dir there, I can't think of a reason for why this would matter since there's no .git there, so there's no way anything can use the config info at that location.