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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Daniel Villeneuve <daniel2villeneuve@videotron.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git -c var=val not taken into account by git config?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 05:16:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120508091606.GB31286@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA857E3.5030609@videotron.ca>

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:16:51PM -0400, Daniel Villeneuve wrote:

> Testing color configuration via scripting, I tried the following command:
> 
> git -c color.diff=always config --get-colorbool diff false
> 
> on a repository with color.diff=auto.
> 
> I'd expect "true" as output, but got "false".  "git diff" works as
> expected though.  Is this an exception for "git config"?

I think you meant "--get-colorbool color.diff"; the fact that you are
getting a colorbool does not automatically place the name inside the
color.* section.

With that change, it seems to work as expected.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 23:16 git -c var=val not taken into account by git config? Daniel Villeneuve
2012-05-08  9:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-05-08 12:56   ` Daniel Villeneuve

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