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From: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [QUESTION] how to find options set by scalar?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:21:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vppjutjcdglp44qvsk4qozphycyg663yrq5775zztim2oe7ty5@uttjrshb52bd> (raw)

Hi,

I'm wondering about making the config options set by `scalar register` a bit
more discoverable.

Background: I was recently working in a large repo that recommended I run
`scalar register` to help make git run a bit more smoothly, and I did (and
didn't think much of it and forgot about it). It was a couple of weeks later I
was again working in this repo and wanted to update my config, but was a bit
confused when I saw a bunch of things set that I didn't remember setting, e.g.
'status.aheadBehind false'. It took me remembering that I had run `scalar
register` and some poking around the code to discover where these options had
come from.

I'm not sure if this is something best addressed by documentation, or maybe by
`scalar register` adding comments to the config lines it changes?

Thanks,
Matt


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-16  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-16  6:21 Matthew Hughes [this message]
2025-09-16  7:45 ` [QUESTION] how to find options set by scalar? Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-18 19:32   ` Matthew Hughes
2025-09-18 20:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-19 15:38       ` Derrick Stolee
2025-09-22  6:20         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-22 13:36           ` Derrick Stolee
2025-10-19 17:43             ` Matthew Hughes

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