Re: The config include mechanism doesn't allow for overwriting

2012-10-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I was hoping to write something like this: [user] name = Luser email = some-defa...@example.com [include] path =

Re: The config include mechanism doesn't allow for overwriting

2012-10-23 Thread John Szakmeister
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] And git config --get foo.bar will give you: $ git config -f /tmp/test --get foo.bar one error: More than one value for the key foo.bar: two error: More than one value for the key foo.bar:

Re: The config include mechanism doesn't allow for overwriting

2012-10-23 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:46:47PM -0400, John Szakmeister wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] And git config --get foo.bar will give you: $ git config -f /tmp/test --get foo.bar one error: More than one value

Re: The config include mechanism doesn't allow for overwriting

2012-10-22 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I was hoping to write something like this: [user] name = Luser email = some-defa...@example.com [include] path = ~/.gitconfig.d/user-email Where that file would contain: