Re: [PATCH 02/11] config-batch: create parse loop and unknown command

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2026, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7c465b00-67c2-464b-b3db-d40685db7d2d@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ecd26a0f1fad5615aea07a388e34f02e9f33b870.1770214803.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026, at 15:19, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

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>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -TODO
> +Tools frequently need to change their behavior based on values stored in
> +Git's configuration files. These files may have complicated conditions
> +for including extra files, so it is difficult to produce an independent
> +parser. To avoid executing multiple processes to discover or modify
> +multiple configuration values, the `git config-batch` command allows a
> +single process to handle multiple requests using a machine-parseable
> +interface across `stdin` and `stdout`.

I really like that the doc itself motivates the command. Many man pages on git(1) just tells you what it does as if you would already know why you need it.

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