Git includeIf for personal and work profiles doesn't work

Question

I've been googling about this, trying different methods from different sources... but it doesn't work.

I want to push commits with my personal profile (defined with "git config --global user.email ...") unless I'm on my work folder.

The content of my .gitconfig is located at C:/Users/my-user/

[user]
    name = Personal
    email = [email protected]

[includeIf "gitdir: F:/Work/CompanyName/"]
    path = F:/Work/CompanyName/.gitconfig-work
    

Content of my .gitconfig-work is located at F:/Work/CompanyName/

[user]
    name = Work
    email = [email protected]

When I go to a cloned repository from work located at:

F:/Work/CompanyName/Project

I use:

git config --show-origin --get user.email

And it shows:

file:C:/Users/<my-user>/.gitconfig

Instead of the route I defined to work.

Thanks for your help.

✨ For the future googlers

I created a gist explaining the steps.

Answer 1

You need to remove one space in:

[includeIf "gitdir: F:/Work/CompanyName/"]

i.e., make this read:

[includeIf "gitdir:F:/Work/CompanyName/"]

Note the lack of a blank between the colon after gitdir and the path name to be tested.

(Your Git also needs to be at least version 2.13. You might consider using gitdir/i:f:/work/companyname/ so that you are not case-sensitive here, assuming your host system is also not case-sensitive, as the F: part suggests.)