On 2022-11-21 18:32:11-0500, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:19:48PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > It is relatively common for users to maintain identical `~/.gitconfig` > > files across all of their setups, using the `includeIf` construct > > liberally to adjust the settings to the respective setup as needed. > > This seems like a reasonable thing to have in general, but I wonder if > you have an example of how people use this. Mostly I am wondering: > > - is it sometimes a misuse, where users _think_ that the OS is > correlated with some feature of Git. And they would be better off > with some flag like "does the current platform support fsmonitor". A possible use-case is setting credential.helper based on OS, let's say libsecret on Linux, and osxkeychain on macOS. Of course, users can have their own helper on specific OS. > > - for cases where it really is "uname -s" the best differentiator? Or > would they commonly want to lump FreeBSD and Linux into the same > category, or to tell the difference between Debian versus Fedora? > > -Peff -- Danh
