Re: [QUESTION] how to find options set by scalar?

From: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2025, 19:32 UTC
Message-ID: <evxbvwwyo4p4iboc4k6r2cd2cvlnm2upgxumqopdijwmvhxhxs@7xvg42heibp3>
In-Reply-To: <aMkVqNbdgxqBJ9K4@pks.im>

> But doing this via comments may be viable indeed. A start for such a
> change could be the following patch, which causes us to write a comment
> "# set by scalar" after every config that we set in the repository:

Agreed, I think this would be very helpful to have! I'd be happy to submit a patch.

I was also looking through the list of config options (within `set_recommended_config`) and thought it might also be useful to comment why each those settings are recommended in the context of working within a large repository. These comments would just be in-line in the code for those curious enough (I think it would be a bit noisy for general use as comments within the config itself) I might dig a bit into the history here, from what I understand it started as a separated project[1] before being added to `git-for-windows`[2] before being merged into `git/git`, are there any other bits I missed?

I see there may be some relics from the history that may not be generally applicable, e.g. setting `credential.https://dev.azure.com.useHttpPath`.

Link: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar [1]
Link: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git [2]