Setting custom variables in `.dir-local.el`

[evb-gh]

Trying to set custom variables in the .dir-local.el file instead of init.el or config.el.

Steps:

1. Create dir test
2. Initiate test dir with git init
3. Add remote git url
4. Create .dir-local.el file
5. add git-auto-commit-mode custom variables:

((nil . ((eval git-auto-commit-mode 1)
           (gac-automatically-push-p . t)
           (gac-automatically-add-new-files-p . t))))

5. Create files with text inside

After the steps above I expect all files to be staged and committed to git, but that doesn't happen.

My system: macOS 10.14.6 with default Doom emacs config

[evb-gh]

I also tried:

((nil . ((eval git-auto-commit-mode 1))))
((nil . ((gac-automatically-push-p . t))))
((nil . ((gac-automatically-add-new-files-p . t))))

but got the same result.

[ryuslash]

Hey! Thanks for reporting this issue. I've tried doing this locally and I think I need some more information.

Your original .dir-locals.el is correct, the second attempt (from your comment) wouldn't work.

1. When you added the remote git url, did you specify that it is the upstream of your local branch? Because git-auto-commit-mode just tries to do git push wen gac-automatically-push-p is non-nil. If it's not set up correctly, it will just fail.
2. Do you get any error messages in your *Messages* buffer after you save the file?
3. Do the files you've created get staged, what's the output of git status after you save and it fails?

[kelvie]

I think I may be running in the the same issue, I get this when I try to set the dir-local variable:

Ignoring unsafe file local variable: gac-automatically-push-p [2 times]

[kelvie]

Looks like this is a doom-emacs thing -- for other doom users, just add (setq-default enable-local-variables t) to your config.el