# [PATCH 2/3] Add git-config-set, a simple helper for scripts to set config variables

1 messages from 2005-11-15 to 2005-11-15. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2532

## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-11-15 21:36

Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add git-config-set, a simple helper for scripts to set config variables
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511152236200.2152@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0511152236200.2152%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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This is meant for the end user, who cannot be expected to edit
.git/config by hand.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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 Makefile     |    3 ++-
 config-set.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 config-set.c

applies-to: 182b0cedc3aa9a6d4afb3331a9c9472306cf77c6
ef6b137c5b90c3d0cba100d39b0fd7ed9de0dad8
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d20cf66..55f4d44 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ PROGRAMS = \
 	git-unpack-objects$X git-update-index$X git-update-server-info$X \
 	git-upload-pack$X git-verify-pack$X git-write-tree$X \
 	git-update-ref$X git-symbolic-ref$X git-check-ref-format$X \
-	git-name-rev$X git-pack-redundant$X $(SIMPLE_PROGRAMS)
+	git-name-rev$X git-pack-redundant$X git-config-set$X \
+	$(SIMPLE_PROGRAMS)
 
 # Backward compatibility -- to be removed after 1.0
 PROGRAMS += git-ssh-pull$X git-ssh-push$X
diff --git a/config-set.c b/config-set.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe024da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config-set.c
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include "cache.h"
+
+static const char git_config_set_usage[] =
+"git-config-set name value";
+
+int main(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	setup_git_directory();
+	switch (argc) {
+	case 3:
+		return git_config_set(argv[1], argv[2]);
+	default:
+		usage(git_config_set_usage);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
---
0.99.9.GIT

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