On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:37:10AM -0800, Jim Garrison wrote:
> I have found that `git config --global` does not pick up any include
> directives in the git config file.
That's by design. You asked for the entries in a specific file, and we
do not follow any includes by default in that case. You can use
`--include` if you want to follow includes.
The documentation is quite misleading here, though. Here's a patch.
-- >8 --
Subject: git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`
As described in the commit message of 9b25a0b (config: add
include directive, 2012-02-06), the `--include` option is
only on by default in some cases. But our documentation
described it as just "defaults to on", which doesn't tell
the whole story.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
Documentation/git-config.txt | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 9dfa1a5..d42c062 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
--[no-]includes::
Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up
- values. Defaults to on.
+ values. Defaults to `off` when a specific file is given (e.g.,
+ using `--file`, `--global`, etc) and `on` when searching all
+ config files.
[[FILES]]
FILES
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2.2.1.425.g441bb3c
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