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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: set user.name and user.email with repo-config
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:52:27 +0100
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
>> What would also mean that we'd have the man-page with a simple
>>
>>      man git-config
>>
>> which makes tons of sense if it documents both the config file *and* the 
>> "git config" program.
>>
>> Or is that too sneaky?
> 
> I like that.
> 
> If the solution can help us deprecate and eventually remove
> git-var that would be ultra-nice.

What about env part of git-var output:

  $ git var -l
  alias.less=-p cat-file -p
  core.repositoryformatversion=0
  core.filemode=true
  [...]
  GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT=Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1169974258 +0100
  GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT=Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1169974258 +0100

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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