Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2018, 01:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9ir4yof.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180410001826.GB67209@syl.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

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> For some use cases, callers of the `git-config(1)` builtin would like to
> fallback to default values when the variable asked for does not exist.
> In addition, users would like to use existing type specifiers to ensure
> that values are parsed correctly when they do exist in the
> configuration.

Nicely done.

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