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From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] builtin/help: add --config-all-for-completion
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:13:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527a643d-5d63-da05-70ad-99200a7b85d1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZcSF2mw-zR1d38UG@tanuki>



Le 2024-02-08 à 02:42, Patrick Steinhardt a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 01:28:00PM +0000, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>>
>> There is currently no machine-friendly way to show _all_ configuration
>> variables from the command line. 'git help --config' does show them all,
>> but it also sets up the pager. 'git help --config-for-completion' omits
>> some variables (those containing wildcards, for example) and 'git help
>> --config-section-for-completion' shows only top-level section names.
> 
> You can invoke `git --no-pager help --config` so that Git does not set
> up the pager. Is there a reason why we can't use that?

I'm glad to say there is no reason we can't use that! I just did not
think of it and dived straight into the C code. I'll use that in v3 and
just drop this patch from the series.

Thanks!

Philippe.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-10 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-28 20:02 [PATCH 0/5] completion: remove hardcoded config variable names Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-28 20:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] completion: add space after config variable names also in Bash 3 Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-28 20:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] completion: complete 'submodule.*' config variables Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-28 20:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] completion: add and use __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-28 20:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] builtin/help: add --config-all-for-completion Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-28 20:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] completion: add an use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-29 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] completion: remove hardcoded config variable names Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-29 13:27   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] completion: add space after config variable names also in Bash 3 Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-01-29 13:27   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] completion: complete 'submodule.*' config variables Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-08  7:42     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-10 15:39       ` Philippe Blain
2024-01-29 13:27   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] completion: add and use __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-08  7:42     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-10 16:06       ` Philippe Blain
2024-02-10 17:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-10 17:27           ` Philippe Blain
2024-02-14  0:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-29 13:28   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] builtin/help: add --config-all-for-completion Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-08  7:42     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-10 16:13       ` Philippe Blain [this message]
2024-01-29 13:28   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] completion: add an use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-08  7:42     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-10 16:19       ` Philippe Blain
2024-02-07 22:08   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] completion: remove hardcoded config variable names Junio C Hamano
2024-02-08  7:42     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-10 18:32   ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-10 18:32     ` [PATCH v3 1/4] completion: add space after config variable names also in Bash 3 Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-10 18:32     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] completion: complete 'submodule.*' config variables Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-10 18:32     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] completion: add and use __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-10 18:32     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] completion: add and use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2024-02-13  9:35     ` [PATCH v3 0/4] completion: remove hardcoded config variable names Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-13 17:09       ` Junio C Hamano

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