From: Derrick Stolee Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:36:00 GMT Subject: Re: [QUESTION] how to find options set by scalar? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/22/2025 2:20 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 11:38:50AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: >> On 9/18/2025 4:29 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Matthew Hughes writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> That would be ultra useful. >> >> I think all of these ideas are good ones. Adding the comment as Patrick >> described is good, for sure. >> >> Instead of commenting the _reason_ in code or in the config, it would be >> good to list the reasons for each recommended config in the Scalar docs >> so they would be visible in web docs [1] for easy discovery. >> >> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/scalar >> >> It seems like Patrick is already 80% of the way to a patch for the >> comment in the config. I'll see if I can carve out some time next week >> for the commentary on the config options in the Documentation. > > Agreed, that seems like a good compromise: we note in the config the > values that were set by scalar(1), but the more verbose justification > would be part of the docs. > > I'm a bit stretched right now, so if you want to work on this please > feel free to just pick my patch and iterate on it. Makes sense. I'll pick up your patch into my series as I prepare it. Thanks, -Stolee