Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config value

> From: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
>
> When a user queries config values with --show-origin, often it's
> difficult to determine what the actual "scope" (local, global, etc.) of
> a given value is based on just the origin file.
>
> Teach 'git config' the '--show-scope' option to print the scope of all
> displayed config values.  Note that we should never see anything of
> "submodule" scope as that is only ever used by submodule-config.c when
> parsing the '.gitmodules' file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-config.txt | 15 ++++++---
>  builtin/config.c             | 36 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  config.c                     | 26 +++++++++++++++-
>  config.h                     | 21 +++++++------
>  submodule-config.c           |  4 ++-
>  t/helper/test-config.c       | 19 +-----------
>  t/t1300-config.sh            | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> index 899e92a1c9..2e47765aab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
> @@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options
>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
>  [verse]
> -'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
> +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --add name value
>  'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --replace-all name value [value_regex]
> -'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
> -'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
> -'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
> +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
> +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
> +'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --remove-section name
> -'git config' [<file-option>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] -l | --list
> +'git config' [<file-option>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--name-only] -l | --list
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --get-color name [default]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
>  'git config' [<file-option>] -e | --edit
> @@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
>  	the actual origin (config file path, ref, or blob id if
>  	applicable).
>  
> +--show-scope::
> +	Similar to `--show-origin` in that it augments the output of
> +	all queried config options with the scope of that value