config: add conditional include

Sometimes a set of repositories want to share configuration settings
among themselves that are distinct from other such sets of repositories.
A user may work on two projects, each of which have multiple
repositories, and use one user.email for one project while using another
for the other.

Setting $GIT_DIR/.config works, but if the penalty of forgetting to
update $GIT_DIR/.config is high (especially when you end up cloning
often), it may not be the best way to go. Having the settings in
~/.gitconfig, which would work for just one set of repositories, would
not well in such a situation. Having separate ${HOME}s may add more
problems than it solves.

Extend the include.path mechanism that lets a config file include
another config file, so that the inclusion can be done only when some
conditions hold. Then ~/.gitconfig can say "include config-project-A
only when working on project-A" for each project A the user works on.

In this patch, the only supported grouping is based on $GIT_DIR (in
absolute path), so you would need to group repositories by directory, or
something like that to take advantage of it.

We already have include.path for unconditional includes. This patch goes
with includeIf.<condition>.path to make it clearer that a condition is
required. The new config has the same backward compatibility approach as
include.path: older git versions that don't understand includeIf will
simply ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/t/t1305-config-include.sh b/t/t1305-config-include.sh
index 9ba2ba11c3..e833939320 100755
--- a/t/t1305-config-include.sh
+++ b/t/t1305-config-include.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ test_expect_success 'config modification does not affect includes' '
 
 test_expect_success 'missing include files are ignored' '
 	cat >.gitconfig <<-\EOF &&
-	[include]path = foo
+	[include]path = non-existent
 	[test]value = yes
 	EOF
 	echo yes >expect &&
@@ -152,6 +152,62 @@ test_expect_success 'relative includes from stdin line fail' '
 	test_must_fail git config --file - test.one
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'conditional include, both unanchored' '
+	git init foo &&
+	(
+		cd foo &&
+		echo "[includeIf \"gitdir:foo/\"]path=bar" >>.git/config &&
+		echo "[test]one=1" >.git/bar &&
+		echo 1 >expect &&
+		git config test.one >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'conditional include, $HOME expansion' '
+	(
+		cd foo &&
+		echo "[includeIf \"gitdir:~/foo/\"]path=bar2" >>.git/config &&
+		echo "[test]two=2" >.git/bar2 &&
+		echo 2 >expect &&
+		git config test.two >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'conditional include, full pattern' '
+	(
+		cd foo &&
+		echo "[includeIf \"gitdir:**/foo/**\"]path=bar3" >>.git/config &&
+		echo "[test]three=3" >.git/bar3 &&
+		echo 3 >expect &&
+		git config test.three >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'conditional include, relative path' '
+	echo "[includeIf \"gitdir:./foo/.git\"]path=bar4" >>.gitconfig &&
+	echo "[test]four=4" >bar4 &&
+	(
+		cd foo &&
+		echo 4 >expect &&
+		git config test.four >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'conditional include, both unanchored, icase' '
+	(
+		cd foo &&
+		echo "[includeIf \"gitdir/i:FOO/\"]path=bar5" >>.git/config &&
+		echo "[test]five=5" >.git/bar5 &&
+		echo 5 >expect &&
+		git config test.five >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'include cycles are detected' '
 	cat >.gitconfig <<-\EOF &&
 	[test]value = gitconfig