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Date:   Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:57:21 -0500
From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To:     "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@azariah.com>
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Subject: Re: includeIf appears to not be working
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> > Is there a debug command which can show if the gitdir is/isn't
> > matching like I thought it should?  What other command output could
> > help debug this?
> 
> No, there's no debug/tracing code for this feature. You'd have to run it
> under gdb (break on the include_by_gitdir function).

Oh, one other command you could try:

  git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir

while in the repository in question. I think that would do the same
normalization of the path (including resolving symlinks). So that would
tell you what Git should be matching against.

-Peff