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Configparser does not respect order of config files with includes #627

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@DanielSiepmann

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@DanielSiepmann

When you have an include statement in the user .gitconfig there content will take precedence over the local .git/config of the repository.

E.g. the following code:
entry = repo.config_reader().get_value('gitlab', 'url')

With the following config setup:

~/.gitconfig:

[include]
    path = ~/.gitconfig-local
[gitlab]
    url = url1

~/.gitconfig-local:

[gitlab]
    url = url2

.git/config:

[gitlab]
    url = url3

Will return url2 I would expect to receive url3 instead as local config should take precedence as the include was in a more global config.

Looks like the issue resides inside the read function e.g.

files_to_read.append(include_path)
will just add the includes to the list, which is just wrong, as they should be read instantly to overwrite just the already known configs.

As the function is just to big, I'm not able to provide a fix.

Versions in use:

>>> import git; git.__version__
'2.1.3'
python --version
Python 2.7.13

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