Unable to source a file in Git's .gitconfig

Question

I put the following code to my .gitconfig unsuccessfully

. /Users/Masi/bin/personal

I get the following error

fatal: bad config file line 7 in /Users/Masi/.gitconfig

How can you source an external file in .gitconfig?

Answer 1

.gitconfig isn't a shell script, it's a list of configuration options for Git. It takes the following form:

[section]
        option = value

You can't "source" another file in .gitconfig.