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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2024-04-05 17:49:49 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2024-04-05 17:49:49 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'rs/config-comment'
"git config" learned "--comment=<message>" option to leave a comment immediately after the "variable = value" on the same line in the configuration file. * rs/config-comment: config: allow tweaking whitespace between value and comment config: fix --comment formatting config: add --comment option to add a comment
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index a6e82b8..ac61113 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--fixed-value] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] <name> [<value> [<value-pattern>]]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --add <name> <value>
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--fixed-value] --replace-all <name> <value> [<value-pattern>]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--comment=<message>] [--fixed-value] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] <name> [<value> [<value-pattern>]]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--comment=<message>] --add <name> <value>
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--comment=<message>] [--fixed-value] --replace-all <name> <value> [<value-pattern>]
'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] --get <name> [<value-pattern>]
'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] --get-all <name> [<value-pattern>]
'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] [--name-only] --get-regexp <name-regex> [<value-pattern>]
@@ -87,6 +87,18 @@ OPTIONS
values. This is the same as providing '^$' as the `value-pattern`
in `--replace-all`.
+--comment <message>::
+ Append a comment at the end of new or modified lines.
+
+ If _<message>_ begins with one or more whitespaces followed
+ by "#", it is used as-is. If it begins with "#", a space is
+ prepended before it is used. Otherwise, a string " # " (a
+ space followed by a hash followed by a space) is prepended
+ to it. And the resulting string is placed immediately after
+ the value defined for the variable. The _<message>_ must
+ not contain linefeed characters (no multi-line comments are
+ permitted).
+
--get::
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not