Can I load one .gitconfig file from another?

git, git-config

Solution

(March 2012) It looks like this is finally going to be possible soon -- git 1.7.10 is going to support this syntax in `.gitconfig`:

[include]
    path = /path/to/file

See here for a detailed description of the git change and its edge cases.

By the way, a couple of subtleties worth pointing out:

Path expansion, e.g. `~` or `$HOME`, does not appear to be supported.

If a relative path is specified, then it is relative to the .gitconfig file that has the `[include]` statement. This works correctly even across chained includes -- e.g. `~/.gitconfig` can have:

[include]
    path = subdir/gitconfig

and `subdir/gitconfig` can have:

[include]
    path = nested_subdir/gitconfig

... which will cause `subdir/nested_subdir/gitconfig` to be loaded.

If git can't find the target file, it silently ignores the error. This appears to be by design.

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