From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Ardill Subject: Re: git should not use a default user.email config value Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:05:40 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20130809134236.28143.75775.reportbug@tglase.lan.tarent.de> <20130809194214.GV14690@google.com> <20130809223758.GB7160@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20130809231928.GY14690@google.com> <20130810064717.GB30185@sigill.intra.peff.net> <52060EF9.2040504@alum.mit.edu> <7vvc3d1o01.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130812123921.GA16088@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20130812154520.GA18215@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Michael Haggerty , Jonathan Nieder , Thorsten Glaser , "git@vger.kernel.org" , Matthieu Moy To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 13 13:06:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9CQy-0007EH-Qt for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:06:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757399Ab3HMLGY (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:06:24 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f51.google.com ([209.85.212.51]:41776 "EHLO mail-vb0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756929Ab3HMLGW (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:06:22 -0400 Received: by mail-vb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id x16so6522371vbf.38 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:06:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=MPPZQ8uuM2IkYC/o60tmkJEVH3dLdHEOqV1Dd28S28c=; b=wbI+QmLc2uNJ0kCyuCERZdJ7aIEwBZ6vUs+cOPDtvJolBzujRH/k6PlMG/u6cw48tG LqPgl16LvKjNRP+DFRpmhCHp9N2LAsonGjvVqMV6BQt636Jix2xpW2otQksGx6J50Rzr qsHiP8nzo+Cvm2WuzzvqNsKuEGY08XzMHG/aDG6AWn2tLSffhCzl0M8Ll5+vNqjlfd5F 8XsV4TgfljeyIDfT0T+ngl5Kx5tJOPJIDyF42m1KrZ8Xz5CMLaIBPXQ57tcLUjz3eoQO 7F4vdUusgj+NaMUFBeTIIjq9aGIqjFQtlaSLLyXxnmhRGY05TX7hYFGF+JxLGK/c+vmL E4UQ== X-Received: by 10.220.75.73 with SMTP id x9mr260137vcj.38.1376391981851; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.195.133 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:05:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130812154520.GA18215@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:01:03PM +1000, Andrew Ardill wrote: >On 12 August 2013 22:39, Jeff King wrote: >> We could do something like the patch below, which allows: >> >> $ git config --global include./magic/.path .gitconfig-magic >> >> to read ~/.gitconfig-magic only when we are in a repository with a >> directory component "/magic/". > > Thanks, this looks great! I'll have a play with it tomorrow. I applied this on top of latest next (1da3ebde8999d07), and it worked perfectly for my use case. For what it's worth, it also passed the test suite! Would be great to see this, or something on the same theme, get into master. I'd be happy to review patches/write tests/write documentation if needed. Regards, Andrew Ardill