On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:01:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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)? Yes. It's relevant insofar as being in the repo to trigger the conditional include, but "cd" would also have sufficed for that. :) -Peff
