From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 06:17:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] builtin/config.c: prefer `--type=bool` over `--bool`, etc.
Message-ID: <9e25f8fa-6518-5c15-f249-c874dbe1761c@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20180330052830.57251-2-me@ttaylorr.com>

Am 30.03.2018 um 07:28 schrieb Taylor Blau:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> index e09ed5d7d..9956b03f7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> @@ -160,30 +158,34 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
>   --list::
>   	List all variables set in config file, along with their values.
>   
> ---bool::
> -	'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
> +--type [type]::
> +  'git config' will ensure that any input output is valid under the given type
> +  constraint(s), and will canonicalize outgoing values in `[type]`'s canonical
> +  form.
> ++
> +Valid `[type]`'s include:
> ++
> +- 'bool': canonicalize  values as either "true" or "false".
> +- 'int': canonicalize  values as simple decimla numbers. An optional suffix of

s/ize  val/ize val/
s/decimla/decimal/

René