From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:41:37 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2015, #05; Mon, 20)
Message-ID: <xmqqa8upuwlq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <55AE95EE.1080500@gmail.com>

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2015-07-21, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> [Stalled]
>> 
>> * sg/config-name-only (2015-05-28) 3 commits
>>  - completion: use new 'git config' options to reliably list variable names
>>  - SQUASH
>>  - config: add options to list only variable names
>> 
>>  "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of
>>  multiple lines.  Introduce a way to show only the keys.
>
> Errr... isn't it what we have -z / --null for?

Yes, but try to read that from a bash completion script ;-)

>>  Adding a single --name-only option may be a better way to go than
>>  adding two new options.
>
> But that is a good idea anyway.

Yup, I think that is where the discussion ended, IIRC.