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Re: [PATCH v2] doc: add --show-names for git config

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
Aug 21, 2024, 06:53 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 02:27:56AM +0800, Yukai Chou wrote:
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> 4e513890 (builtin/config: introduce "get" subcommand,
> 2024-05-06) introduced "--show-names" option that is used to
> give the name of the configuration variable to each output entry
> in addition to the value.  It however forgot to document it,
> even though the option is used in a few examples.
> 
> Document it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yukai Chou <muzimuzhi@gmail.com>
> ---
> Thanks for your review and suggestions Junio. I must have stayed up
> too late yesterday, so what the commit message was sent was not the
> final version.
> 
>  Documentation/git-config.txt | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> index 65c645d461..16323c4ed0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> @@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
>   all queried config options with the scope of that value
>   (worktree, local, global, system, command).
> 
> +--show-names::
> + Output also the names of config variables for `list` or `get`.
> +

This looks sensible. I'd probably drop the "also" here, which reads a bit awkward. Do we also want to spell out how names and values are separated from each other?

Patrick
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  1. doc: add --show-names for git configYukai Chou, Aug 19, 2024
  2. Yukai ChouAug 19, 2024
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2024
  4. doc: add --show-names for git configYukai Chou, Aug 19, 2024
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2024
  6. Patrick SteinhardtAug 21, 2024
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