From: "Duy Nguyen" <pclo...@gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org>
wrote:
+Conditional includes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+You can include one config file from another conditionally by setting
On first reading I thought this implied you can only have one `includeIf`
within the config file.
I think it is meant to mean that each `includeIf`could include one other
file, and that users can have multiple `includeIf` lines.
Yes. Not sure how to put it better though (I basically copied the
first paragraph from the unconditional include section above, which
shares the same confusion). Perhaps just write "the variable can be
specified multiple times"? Or "multiple variables include multiple
times, the last variable does not override the previous ones"?
--
My attempt, based on updating the `Includes` section would be something
like:
`You can include a config file from another by setting the special
`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The variable
takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde expansion.
`include.path` supports multiple key values.`
The subtle change was to s/one/a/ at the start, and then add the final short
sentence that states that the section's variables can have multiple key
values.
I copied the 'multiple key values' phrase from the man page intro for
consitency, though 'multivalued' could just as easily be used as it is the
term used by the 'Configuration File' section that this is part of
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_configuration_file.
Even shorter may be:
`You can include a config file from another by setting the special
`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The variable
(can be multivalued) takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde
expansion.`
The Conditional Includes would follow suit.
Philip
