[RFC] Identify where a Git config is defined
- From
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
- Date
- Feb 2, 2016, 09:27 UTC
- Message-ID
- <3226E251-73F9-4410-84DE-49C8FFAD92EB@gmail.com>
Hi,
Using "git config --list" shows me all configs but sometimes I have a hard time to figure out where a certain config is defined. This is especially true on Windows as I found the system config in various places. I wonder if other people would find it useful to enable something like "git config --list --print-source" where every config value is printed with the file where it originates from.
If I read the source correctly this would mean I would need to change "config_fn_t" to pass not only key and value but also the config source file in addition. Since "config_fn_t" is used in many places this would be a big change that probably is not worth the effort?!
Alternatively I was thinking about "git config --print-source-files" to print all config files that Git would parse. This would already help to find the configs and would probably be a smaller change.
Thoughts?
Thanks, Lars