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On 11/10/2022 06:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Elsie Hupp <git@elsiehupp.com> writes:
>
>> I structure my cloned repositories based on the remote host, e.g.:
>>
>> ~/Repositories/github/cloned-repository-name
>> ~/Repositories/gitlab/other-cloned-repository-name
> The above is by definition not "global" (aka "per user").
>
> "--global" is for things that are of your personal preference, not
> "when I am working on this project, these settings apply" (which is
> suitable for "per repository").
>
> What you want is a way to say "when I am working on these projects,
> these settings apply".
>
> One way to do this would be to have
>
> 	[includeIf "gitdir:~/Repositories/github/"] path = $HOME/.githubconfig
> 	[includeIf "gitdir:~/Repositories/gitlab/"] path = $HOME/.gitlabconfig
>
> in $HOME/.gitconfig and then write in these two extra files that are
> conditionally included whatever settings you want to use for any and
> all repositories that come from GitHub or GitLab.
>
> $ git help config
>
> and look for Conditional includes, perhaps?
>
>
This use of "IncludeIf" for the Home/work case also came up in a recent
Git for Windows discussion
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/discussions/4058

That discussion was about the trickiness of quoting when on the
different Windows terminals/shells as the config string gets passed
around (IIUC).

--
Philip