Documentation problem: new syntax for git config --get-urlmatch

M Hickford· Jan 14, 2026, 10:21 UTC · lore

Hi. What's the new syntax for `git config --get-urlmatch` ?

Docs Documentation/git-config.adoc suggests:

    --get-urlmatch <name> <URL>
    Replaced by git config get --all --show-names --url=<URL> <name>

But when I tried this I got error:

    fatal: --url= cannot be used with --all, --regexp or --value

Any ideas?

Shreyansh Paliwal· Jan 14, 2026, 14:32 UTC · re: M Hickford · lore

Re: Documentation problem: new syntax for git config --get-urlmatch

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> Hi. What's the new syntax for `git config --get-urlmatch` ?
> 
> Docs Documentation/git-config.adoc suggests:
> 
>     --get-urlmatch <name> <URL>
>     Replaced by git config get --all --show-names --url=<URL> <name>
> 
> But when I tried this I got error:
> 
>     fatal: --url= cannot be used with --all, --regexp or --value
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi,

The doc might have not been updated because, there is an explicit check in the code which prevents the use of --url and --all together.

--url gives you the best match, to use it try,

    git config get --show-names --url=<name> <URL>

If you need to see all the instances, you can use --all and --regexp directly without --url like,

    git config get --all --show-names --regexp <name>

Let me know if that works out.

Best, Shreyansh