From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:34:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: git clone does not respect command line options
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BK=2aKg68msH9vawHrXr=PsQYgs6sGXy0koy459MYfSA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160226082437.GB26994@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> As an alternative, it would be nice to have some config syntax for
> "clear the list". Maybe something like an empty string, which I think
> has no meaning for the current multi-valued variables (at least not for
> credential helpers or refspecs). That would allow something like:
>
>   git -c credential.helper= clone ...
>
> to do what you'd expect.

I've been thinking of -= instead. It's unambiguous. And you can use
wildcards on both sides. "credential.helper -= *" means delete that
key, "credential.* -= *" deletes all credential.* keys.
credential.helper -= abc only deletes it if the previous value is abc.
-- 
Duy