Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

From: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2021, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <YUSyNqd51euzvt8N@danh.dev>
In-Reply-To: <20210917134318.scdqa6k4swzgo5k2@meerkat.local>

On 2021-09-17 09:43:18-0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which takes
> > configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).
> > 
> > How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the
> > script?
> 
> You can just add it. :) Git doesn't complain when it finds configuration
> parameters it doesn't know anything about, it just ignores them.
> 
> E.g. in your .gitconfig or individual repository .git/config:
> 
>     [foobar]
>         something = yourvalue

Or just:

	git config [--global] foobar.something yourvalue

-- 
Danh