Can I have GCM save my gitconfig changes to a different file?

[sheldonhull]

• I have my .gitconfig version controlled and templated.
• Using SSO with GCM changes my .gitconfig.
• Is there a way I can have GCM not change my gitconfig while still preserving the SSO setup that gcm does interactively with the web browser?

Using include

I tried to setup:

# $HOME/.gitconfig
[include]
    path = .gitconfig.gcm

and then in $HOME/.gitconfig.gcm

# File for git credential manager to update without impacting my global config
[credential "azrepos:org/ORG"]
    username = myssoemail

When I restarted code and it didn't see to honor this and immediately prompted for SSO and edited my $HOME/.gitconfig. I'm not sure if it's an issue with me and git configs or how GCM works :-)

[ldennington]

@sheldonhull - unfortunately GCM does not currently recognize config includes and will thus always update $HOME/.gitconfig. This is something we'd like to add, but it would involve a pretty complex change (essentially re-writing Git's config parsing logic). We're tracking with this issue.

[sheldonhull]

Sounds great. That helps. I’ll just move my settings into an includes file and should be solved.