Is it possible to include a file in your .gitconfig

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Git (1.7.10+) now supports 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:

  1. Environment-variable expansion, e.g. $HOME, is not supported. (Expansion of ~ appeared in Git 1.7.10.2.)

  2. 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.

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

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