From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 01:50:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default`
Message-ID: <xmqqo9ir4yof.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180410001826.GB67209@syl.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> 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.