Git 2.13 conditional config on windows

Question

Git version: 2.13.0.windows.1

OS: Windows 7

CLI: Git bash

.gitconfig

[user]     name = Gyandeep Singh     email = [email protected] [push]     default = current [core]     autocrlf = input [includeIf "gitdir: ~/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]     path = .gitconfig-work 

.gitconfig-work

[user]     name = Gyandeep Singh     email = [email protected] 

• Both the config files above sit together in the same directory (home).

What happened: open CLI on a folder (example test) inside corporate folder and then run git config user.email the output is [email protected].

Expected: Outcome should be [email protected].

Am I doing something wrong or my expectation is not correct? I did follow the git docs.

Solution

You have to run git config --show-origin --get user.email on a git initialized directory. If its not git initialized then the includeIf gitdir functionality will not work.

Its strange but true. I wish it still worked.

Answer 1

Your global C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig should have this includeIf:

[includeIf "gitdir:C:/Users/<user-name>/Documents/webstorm/corporate/"]     path = .gitconfig-work 

with having your work Git repos in C:/Users/<user-name>/Documents/webstorm/corporate and the conditional work configuration should be located at C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig-work.

That's at least working for me in Window's cmd and Cmder. A git config --show-origin --get user.email should than show you from where a config value is loaded/resolved.

It also seems like the conditional work configuration is only used when issued from within a Git repository.

C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate λ git config --show-origin --get user.email file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig  [email protected]  C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate\some-repo λ git config --show-origin --get user.email file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig-work  [email protected]  C:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\webstorm\corporate\some-non-repo-dir λ git config --show-origin --get user.email file:C:/Users/<user-name>/.gitconfig  [email protected]