From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:57:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Add git-config-set, a simple helper for scripts to set config variables
Message-ID: <7vveyqswzx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511172244230.18285@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> This is meant for the end user, who cannot be expected to edit
> .git/config by hand.
>
> Example:
>
> 	git-config-set core.filemode true
>
> will set filemode in the section [core] to true,
>
> 	git-config-set --unset core.filemode
>
> will remove the entry (failing if it is not there), and
>
> 	git-config-set --unset diff.twohead ^recar
>
> will remove the unique entry whose value matches the regex "^recar"
> (failing if there is no unique such entry).

It's kinda funny that your users cannot edit a plain text file
with an editor, but know how to do regex ;-).

I think the true value of this is that Porcelain scripts can
muck with configuration files.