From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:47:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible BUG in 'git config'
Message-ID: <e5bfff550702110947s77e8f264k951ae1c158fcee98@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702111829230.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 2/11/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Yes, this is probably a bug. But it's obvious that if git-config _without_
> --global would _not_ use ~/.gitconfig, that would rather make ~/.gitconfig
> pointless, wouldn't it?
>

Yes.

> So yes, the description should mention that this is meant for the case of
> _setting_ variables, not _querying_ variables. The original poster (Sean)
> probaly though -- IMHO correctly -- that querying with --global makes no
> sense.
>

Yes. It makes non sense but it' allowed. So probably, at least for
consistency, could exists a query without silent fallback. Something
like

git repo-config --local user.name


Marco