From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:29:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: add --repository option Message-ID: <7vskiifyd5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090602195555.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Nanako Shiraishi writes: > Quoting Sverre Rabbelier : > >> This is a shorthand similar to --system but instead uses >> the config file of the current repository. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier >> --- >> >> I often want to check what the local value of a config >> entry is, hence this patch. >> >> builtin-config.c | 7 +++++-- >> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > Junio, may I ask what happened to this patch? Nothing ;-) I did see it, but simply forgot about it, as nobody else seemed to be interested nor found anything objectionable in it. I somehow think --repository is much harder to type than --local, and in the context of the command, somehow --local would mesh better with other existing options --system and --global, but that comment falls into the bikeshedding category.