Can git config file use if else statement?

Question

In Git 1.7.?, push.default has value : nothing, matching, tracking ...

In Git 1.8.?, push.default has value : nothing, upstream, simple ...

I custom my .gitconfig file :

[push]
    default = simple

and this will not work in Git 1.7, so I want to to check the git version and choose which push.default value to use.

There is a similar question: Can gitconfig options be set conditionally?

the answer is use script, is there any other better way?

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And I use git --version, and output this format:

git version 1.8.1.5

Is there a way to check the version?

Answer 1

No, you cannot do this as a git config file is just a dumb text file. If you only have two different configs, it will work out a lot easier for you to just have two different config files and use the correct one on each machine.