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From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
To: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] Identify where a Git config is defined
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:27:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3226E251-73F9-4410-84DE-49C8FFAD92EB@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Using "git config --list" shows me all configs but sometimes I have a hard time to figure out where a certain config is defined. This is especially true on Windows as I found the system config in various places. I wonder if other people would find it useful to enable something like "git config --list --print-source" where every config value is printed with the file where it originates from.

If I read the source correctly this would mean I would need to change "config_fn_t" to pass not only key and value but also the config source file in addition. Since "config_fn_t" is used in many places this would be a big change that probably is not worth the effort?!

Alternatively I was thinking about "git config --print-source-files" to print all config files that Git would parse. This would already help to find the configs and would probably be a smaller change.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Lars

next             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02  9:27 Lars Schneider [this message]
2016-02-02 10:15 ` [RFC] Identify where a Git config is defined Jeff King
2016-02-02 10:32   ` Jeff King

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