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2021-09-13doc: config, tell readers of `git help --config`Philip Oakley
The `git help` command gained the ability to list config variables in 3ac68a93fd (help: add --config to list all available config, 2018-05-26) but failed to tell readers of the config documenation itself. Provide that cross reference. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20doc/git-config: simplify "override" advice for FILES sectionJeff King
At the end of the FILES section, we indicate that you can override the regular lookup rules with --global, etc. But: - we're missing the --local option - we point to GIT_CONFIG instead of --file, but the latter has much better documentation - we're vague about how the overrides work; the actual option descriptions are much better here So let's just mention the names and point people back to the OPTIONS section. We could perhaps even delete this paragraph entirely, but the presence of the names may give people reading FILES a clue about where to look for more information. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20doc/git-config: clarify GIT_CONFIG environment variableJeff King
The scope and utility of the GIT_CONFIG variable was drastically reduced by dc87183189 (Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs, 2008-06-30). But the documentation in git-config(1) predates that, which makes it rather misleading. These days it is really just another way to say "--file". So let's say that, and explicitly make it clear that it does not impact other Git commands (like GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM, etc, would). I also bumped it to the bottom of the list of variables, and warned people off of using it. We don't have any plans for deprecation at this point, but there's little point in encouraging people to use it by putting it at the top of the list. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20doc/git-config: explain --file instead of referring to GIT_CONFIGJeff King
The explanation for the --file option only refers to GIT_CONFIG. This redirection to an environment variable is confusing, but doubly so because the description of GIT_CONFIG is out of date. Let's describe --file from scratch, detailing both the reading and writing behavior as we do for other similar options like --system, etc. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-19config: allow overriding of global and system configurationPatrick Steinhardt
In order to have git run in a fully controlled environment without any misconfiguration, it may be desirable for users or scripts to override global- and system-level configuration files. We already have a way of doing this, which is to unset both HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variables and to set `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=true`. This is quite kludgy, and unsetting the first two variables likely has an impact on other executables spawned by such a script. The obvious way to fix this would be to introduce `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL` as an equivalent to `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. But in the past, it has turned out that this design is inflexible: we cannot test system-level parsing of the git configuration in our test harness because there is no way to change its location, so all tests run with `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM` set. Instead of doing the same mistake with `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`, introduce two new variables `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` and `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`: - If unset, git continues to use the usual locations. - If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective level. This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but is more flexible and allows for more usecases than simply adding `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25Merge branch 'ps/config-env-pairs'Junio C Hamano
Introduce two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via environment variables, and tweak the way GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs to make it more robust. * ps/config-env-pairs: config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function config: store "git -c" variables using more robust format config: parse more robust format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS config: extract function to parse config pairs quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function config: add new way to pass config via `--config-env` git: add `--super-prefix` to usage string
2021-01-15config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairsPatrick Steinhardt
While we currently have the `GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS` environment variable which can be used to pass runtime configuration data to git processes, it's an internal implementation detail and not supposed to be used by end users. Next to being for internal use only, this way of passing config entries has a major downside: the config keys need to be parsed as they contain both key and value in a single variable. As such, it is left to the user to escape any potentially harmful characters in the value, which is quite hard to do if values are controlled by a third party. This commit thus adds a new way of adding config entries via the environment which gets rid of this shortcoming. If the user passes the `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=$n` environment variable, Git will parse environment variable pairs `GIT_CONFIG_KEY_$i` and `GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_$i` for each `i` in `[0,n)`. While the same can be achieved with `git -c <name>=<value>`, one may wish to not do so for potentially sensitive information. E.g. if one wants to set `http.extraHeader` to contain an authentication token, doing so via `-c` would trivially leak those credentials via e.g. ps(1), which typically also shows command arguments. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexpJunio C Hamano
The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says "POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command takes is ERE). Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config: add --fixed-value option, un-implementedDerrick Stolee
The 'git config' builtin takes a 'value-pattern' parameter for several actions. This can cause confusion when expecting exact value matches instead of regex matches, especially when the input string contains metacharacters. While callers can escape the patterns themselves, it would be more friendly to allow an argument to disable the pattern matching in favor of an exact string match. Add a new '--fixed-value' option that does not currently change the behavior. The implementation will be filled in by later changes for each appropriate action. For now, check and test that --fixed-value will abort the command when included with an incompatible action or without a 'value-pattern' argument. The name '--fixed-value' was chosen over something simpler like '--fixed' because some commands allow regular expressions on the key in addition to the value. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'Derrick Stolee
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named, especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string matches instead of ERE pattern matches. Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to 'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase, too. For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c, which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'. I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name consistent with the rest of the variables. This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings currently use "[value_regex]" directly. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-10config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config valueMatthew Rogers
When a user queries config values with --show-origin, often it's difficult to determine what the actual "scope" (local, global, etc.) of a given value is based on just the origin file. Teach 'git config' the '--show-scope' option to print the scope of all displayed config values. Note that we should never see anything of "submodule" scope as that is only ever used by submodule-config.c when parsing the '.gitmodules' file. Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-09Documentation: wrap config listings in "----"Martin Ågren
The indented lines in these example config-file listings are indented differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor. Fix this by marking the example config-files as code listings by wrapping them in "----". Because this gives us some extra indentation, we can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop the first tab of indentation on each line. With AsciiDoc, this results in identical rendering before and after this commit. Asciidoctor now renders this the same as AsciiDoc does. git-config.txt pretty consistently uses twelve dashes rather than the minimum four to spell "----". Let's stick to the file-local convention there. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more'Junio C Hamano
Documentation mark-up fixes. * ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more: Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
2019-03-07config: document --type=color output is a complete lineJeff King
Even though the newer "--type=color" option to "git config" is meant to be upward compatible with the traditional "--get-color" option, unlike the latter, its output is not an incomplete line that lack the LF at the end. That makes it consistent with output of other types like "git config --type=bool". Document it, as it sometimes surprises unsuspecting users. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spacesMartin Ågren
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-22worktree: add per-worktree config filesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
A new repo extension is added, worktreeConfig. When it is present: - Repository config reading by default includes $GIT_DIR/config _and_ $GIT_DIR/config.worktree. "config" file remains shared in multiple worktree setup. - The special treatment for core.bare and core.worktree, to stay effective only in main worktree, is gone. These config settings are supposed to be in config.worktree. This extension is most useful in multiple worktree setup because you now have an option to store per-worktree config (which is either .git/config.worktree for main worktree, or .git/worktrees/xx/config.worktree for linked ones). This extension can be used in single worktree mode, even though it's pretty much useless (but this can happen after you remove all linked worktrees and move back to single worktree). "git config" reads from both "config" and "config.worktree" by default (i.e. without either --user, --file...) when this extension is present. Default writes still go to "config", not "config.worktree". A new option --worktree is added for that (*). Since a new repo extension is introduced, existing git binaries should refuse to access to the repo (both from main and linked worktrees). So they will not misread the config file (i.e. skip the config.worktree part). They may still accidentally write to the config file anyway if they use with "git config --file <path>". This design places a bet on the assumption that the majority of config variables are shared so it is the default mode. A safer move would be default writes go to per-worktree file, so that accidental changes are isolated. (*) "git config --worktree" points back to "config" file when this extension is not present and there is only one worktree so that it works in any both single and multiple worktree setups. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-20git-config.txt: fix 'see: above' noteMartin Ågren
Rather than saying "(see: above)", drop the colon. Also drop the comma before this note. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-20Doc: use `--type=bool` instead of `--bool`Martin Ågren
After fb0dc3bac1 (builtin/config.c: support `--type=<type>` as preferred alias for `--<type>`, 2018-04-18) we have a more modern way of spelling `--bool`. Update all instances except those that explicitly document the "historical options" in git-config.txt. The other old-style type-specifiers already seem to be gone except for in that list of historical options. Tweak the grammar a little in config.txt while we are there. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20Merge branch 'sb/config-write-fix'Junio C Hamano
Recent update to "git config" broke updating variable in a subsection, which has been corrected. * sb/config-write-fix: git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax config: fix case sensitive subsection names on writing t1300: document current behavior of setting options
2018-08-08git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntaxStefan Beller
The bug was noticed when writing the previous patch; a fix for this bug is not easy though: If we choose to ignore the case of the subsection (and revert most of the code of the previous patch, just keeping s/strncasecmp/strcmp/), then we'd introduce new sections using the new syntax, such that -------- [section.subsection] key = value1 -------- git config section.Subsection.key value2 would result in -------- [section.subsection] key = value1 [section.Subsection] key = value2 -------- which is even more confusing. A proper fix would replace the first occurrence of 'key'. As the syntax is deprecated, let's prefer to not spend time on fixing the behavior and just document it instead. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-23builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifierTaylor Blau
As of this commit, the canonical way to retreive an ANSI-compatible color escape sequence from a configuration file is with the `--get-color` action. This is to allow Git to "fall back" on a default value for the color should the given section not exist in the specified configuration(s). With the addition of `--default`, this is no longer needed since: $ git config --default red --type=color core.section will be have exactly as: $ git config --get-color core.section red For consistency, let's introduce `--type=color` and encourage its use with `--default` together over `--get-color` alone. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-23builtin/config: introduce `--default`Taylor Blau
For some use cases, callers of the `git-config(1)` builtin would like to fallback to default values when the variable asked for does not exist. In addition, users would like to use existing type specifiers to ensure that values are parsed correctly when they do exist in the configuration. For example, to fetch a value without a type specifier and fallback to `$fallback`, the following is required: $ git config core.foo || echo "$fallback" This is fine for most values, but can be tricky for difficult-to-express `$fallback`'s, like ANSI color codes. This motivates `--get-color`, which is a one-off exception to the normal type specifier rules wherein a user specifies both the configuration variable and an optional fallback. Both are formatted according to their type specifier, which eases the burden on the user to ensure that values are correctly formatted. This commit (and those following it in this series) aim to eventually replace `--get-color` with a consistent alternative. By introducing `--default`, we allow the `--get-color` action to be promoted to a `--type=color` type specifier, retaining the "fallback" behavior via the `--default` flag introduced in this commit. For example, we aim to replace: $ git config --get-color variable [default] [...] with: $ git config --default default --type=color variable [...] Values filled by `--default` behave exactly as if they were present in the affected configuration file; they will be parsed by type specifiers without the knowledge that they are not themselves present in the configuration. Specifically, this means that the following will work: $ git config --int --default 1M does.not.exist 1048576 In subsequent commits, we will offer `--type=color`, which (in conjunction with `--default`) will be sufficient to replace `--get-color`. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-19builtin/config.c: support `--type=<type>` as preferred alias for `--<type>`Taylor Blau
`git config` has long allowed the ability for callers to provide a 'type specifier', which instructs `git config` to (1) ensure that incoming values can be interpreted as that type, and (2) that outgoing values are canonicalized under that type. In another series, we propose to extend this functionality with `--type=color` and `--default` to replace `--get-color`. However, we traditionally use `--color` to mean "colorize this output", instead of "this value should be treated as a color". Currently, `git config` does not support this kind of colorization, but we should be careful to avoid squatting on this option too soon, so that `git config` can support `--color` (in the traditional sense) in the future, if that is desired. In this patch, we support `--type=<int|bool|bool-or-int|...>` in addition to `--int`, `--bool`, and etc. This allows the aforementioned upcoming patch to support querying a color value with a default via `--type=color --default=...`, without squandering `--color`. We retain the historic behavior of complaining when multiple, legacy-style `--<type>` flags are given, as well as extend this to conflicting new-style `--type=<type>` flags. `--int --type=int` (and its commutative pair) does not complain, but `--bool --type=int` (and its commutative pair) does. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-21config: change default of `pager.config` to "on"Martin Ågren
This is similar to ff1e72483 (tag: change default of `pager.tag` to "on", 2017-08-02) and is safe now that we do not consider `pager.config` at all when we are not listing or getting configuration. This change will help with listing large configurations, but will not hurt users of `git config --edit` as it would have before the previous commit. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-21config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode onlyMartin Ågren
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only, 2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect `pager.config` when we are listing or "get"ing config. We have several getters and some are guaranteed to give at most one line of output. Paging all getters including those could be convenient from a documentation point-of-view. The downside would be that a misconfigured or not so modern pager might wait for user interaction before terminating. Let's instead respect the config for precisely those getters which may produce more than one line of output. `--get-urlmatch` may or may not produce multiple lines of output, depending on the exact usage. Let's not try to recognize the two modes, but instead make `--get-urlmatch` always respect the config. Analyzing the detailed usage might be trivial enough here, but could establish a precedent that we will never be able to enforce throughout the codebase and that will just open a can of worms. This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the test for whether `git config foo.bar bar` and `git config --get foo.bar` respects `pager.config`. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-18config: add --expiry-dateHaaris Mehmood
Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when 'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative or fixed dates from config files as timestamps. This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format acceptable by those scripts/functions. Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move the helper function required for this feature from builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output pointer as first parameter). Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-19config doc: clarify "git config --path" exampleNathan Payre
Change the word "bla" to "section.variable"; "bla" is a placeholder for a variable name but it wasn't clear for everyone. While we're here, also reformat this sample command line to use monospace instead of italics, to better match the rest of the file. Use a space instead of a dash in "git config", as is common in the rest of Git's documentation. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: MOY Matthieu <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-25Merge branch 'dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc'Junio C Hamano
The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration variable definition at the end of the search order was described in git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot override, and if so how?" * dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc: doc: mention `git -c` in git-config(1)
2016-08-23doc: mention `git -c` in git-config(1)David Glasser
Signed-off-by: David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long options with argument as literalMatthieu Moy
We previously reformatted '--option' to `--option`. This patch reformats '--option <arg>' to `--option <arg>`. Obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]* <[^>]*>)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of forward-quotes, for long options. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to describe rewritten history). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: more consistency in environment variables formatTom Russello
Wrap with backticks (monospaced font) unwrapped or single-quotes wrapped (italic type) environment variables which are followed by the word "environment". It was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/\'?(\\\$?[0-9A-Z\_]+)\'?(?= environment ?)/\`\1\`/g" *.txt One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines). Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-26config doc: improve exit code listingStefan Beller
The possible reasons for exiting are now ordered by the exit code value. While at it, rewrite the `can not write to the config file` to `the config file cannot be written` to be grammatically correct and a proper sentence. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-15Merge branch 'jk/config-get-urlmatch' into maintJunio C Hamano
"git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status when there was no matching configuration. * jk/config-get-urlmatch: Documentation/git-config: fix --get-all description Documentation/git-config: use bulleted list for exit codes config: fail if --get-urlmatch finds no value
2016-02-28Documentation/git-config: fix --get-all descriptionJohn Keeping
--get does not fail if a key is multi-valued, it returns the last value as described in its documentation. Clarify the description of --get-all to avoid implying that --get does fail in this case. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-28Documentation/git-config: use bulleted list for exit codesJohn Keeping
Using a numbered list is confusing because the exit codes are not listed in order so the numbers at the start of each line do not match the exit codes described by the following text. Switch to a bulleted list so that the only number appearing on each line is the exit code described. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-28config: fail if --get-urlmatch finds no valueJohn Keeping
The --get, --get-all and --get-regexp options to git-config exit with status 1 if the key is not found but --get-urlmatch succeeds in this case. Change --get-urlmatch to behave in the same way as the other --get* options so that all four are consistent. --get-color is a special case because it accepts a default value to return and so should not return an error if the key is not found. Also clarify this behaviour in the documentation. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-26Merge branch 'ls/config-origin'Junio C Hamano
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages. "git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where the values come from. * ls/config-origin: config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
2016-02-22Merge branch 'jk/config-include'Junio C Hamano
* jk/config-include: git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`
2016-02-22config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config valueLars Schneider
If config values are queried using 'git config' (e.g. via --get, --get-all, --get-regexp, or --list flag) then it is sometimes hard to find the configuration file where the values were defined. Teach 'git config' the '--show-origin' option to print the source configuration file for every printed value. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-13git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`Jeff King
As described in the commit message of 9b25a0b (config: add include directive, 2012-02-06), the `--include` option is only on by default in some cases. But our documentation described it as just "defaults to on", which doesn't tell the whole story. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable namesSZEDER Gábor
'git config' can only show values or name-value pairs, so if a shell script needs the names of set config variables it has to run 'git config --list' or '--get-regexp' and parse the output to separate config variable names from their values. However, such a parsing can't cope with multi-line values. Though 'git config' can produce null-terminated output for newline-safe parsing, that's of no use in such a case, becase shells can't cope with null characters. Even our own bash completion script suffers from these issues. Help the completion script, and shell scripts in general, by introducing the '--name-only' option to modify the output of '--list' and '--get-regexp' to list only the names of config variables, so they don't have to perform error-prone post processing to separate variable names from their values anymore. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-14*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Jason St. John
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09Merge branch 'jc/url-match'Junio C Hamano
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables. This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work. * jc/url-match: builtin/config.c: compilation fix config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key builtin/config: refactor collect_config() config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key config: add helper to normalize and match URLs http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
2013-08-05config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.keyJunio C Hamano
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific URL. git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url> With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for <section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used) and reported. For example, with this configuration: [http] sslVerify [http "https://weak.example.com"] cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt sslVerify = false You would get $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com true $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com false With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables in the section with their values that apply to the given URL. E.g $ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt http.sslverify false Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-31Merge branch 'rr/maint-tilde-markup-in-doc'Junio C Hamano
* rr/maint-tilde-markup-in-doc: config doc: quote paths, fixing tilde-interpretation
2013-07-26config doc: quote paths, fixing tilde-interpretationRamkumar Ramachandra
The --global section of git-config(1) currently reads like: For writing options: write to global /.gitconfig file rather than the ^ start tilde repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the/.gitconfig file doesn’t. ^ end tilde Instead of tilde (~) being interpreted literally, asciidoc subscripts the text between the two tildes. To fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote all the paths in the file uniformly, just like config.txt does. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob'Junio C Hamano
Allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob objects, which would help working in a bare repository and submodule updates. * hv/config-from-blob: do not die when error in config parsing of buf occurs teach config --blob option to parse config from database config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source config: drop cf validity check in get_next_char() config: factor out config file stack management
2013-07-22Merge branch 'nk/config-local-doc' into maintJunio C Hamano
* nk/config-local-doc: config: Add description of --local option