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Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:15:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: Ax8gMV7f33-w Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:14:54 +0200 From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" To: "Junio C Hamano" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Patrick Steinhardt" Message-Id: <7bb06f60-01e8-4d51-8ba2-9a510d18d32f@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] doc: var: link -l to git config list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 31, 2026, at 23:12, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>[snip] >> ++ >> +WARNING: Deprecated in favor of `git config list`. > > This changes the meaning, and I am afraid in a bad way. > > Use if "git var -l" to ask values of configuration variables is > deprecated, as we would encourage use of "git config [-l | list]". > "git var -l" is and will stay to be the way to ask about logical > variables. > > The new text, unlike the original, does not limit the deprecation > only for asking about configuration variables. > > The logical variables are called logical because their values are > synthesized from information taken from different places (e.g., you > might not have user.name configured but may have GIT_AUTHOR_NAME > environment variable set and exported or your name configured > correctly in GECOS field. We can ask what the value of > GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT is, without knowing where that value comes from, > and the source might be outside the usual Git configuration > subsystem, which makes it "logical"). > > I'd prefer to see this step just stick to `git config -l` =3D> `git co= nfig list` > rewrite without the separate WARNING: style change. Aye! I missed that it was only talking about parts of the behavior. I=E2=80=99ll drop the admonition change.