Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:48:06AM +0200, Tomáš Procházka wrote: > >> [includeIf "gitdir:~/Workspace/Showmax/"] >> path = ~/Workspace/Showmax/.gitconfig >> [...] >> I get correct email setting if I run command without `--global` flag. >> But What I understand from the [`git-config` >> docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_description) if no flag is >> passed the values are read from system, global and local. > > Right, I'd expect that to work, but... > >> If I run commands one by one, No returns the ~correct~ expected email: >> >> ~ $ git -C <pwd/to/showmax/project> config --system user.email >> ~ $ git -C <pwd/to/showmax/project> config --global user.email >> tomas.prochazka5d@xxxxxxxxx >> ~ $ git -C <pwd/to/showmax/project> config --local user.email > > There's another difference when asking to read from a specific file: > includes are not turned on by default. Try > > git -C ... config --global --includes user.email > > This is covered briefly in git-config(1): > > --[no-]includes > Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. > Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g., using --file, > --global, etc) and on when searching all config files. > > This can be confusing, but was necessary to keep compatibility with > scripted manipulations of those files when includes were introduced. So, in short, the mention of -C in the report was red herring and it was all about --(system|global|local)?
