From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why does "git config" output nothing instead of the default value for unset variables?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:34:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kke7o1$oo$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
Hi,
I'm just wondering why it was decided to work like this. IMHO it's quite
inconvenient that git config outputs nothing for any unset (but known)
variable. Usually when I query a variable I'm not so much interested in
whether it is at all (explicitly) set to some value or not, but what
value is currently in use. With that in mind, it would make much more
sense for git config to print the implicit default value instead of
nothing if a known variable is unset. For unknown / custom variables it
still could display nothing, which also gives a nice way to check
whether a given variable name is known to Git or not.
--
Sebastian Schuberth
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-14 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 12:34 Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2013-04-14 12:47 ` Why does "git config" output nothing instead of the default value for unset variables? Andrew Ardill
2013-04-14 12:56 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-04-14 13:03 ` Andrew Ardill
2013-04-14 18:56 ` Jeff King
2013-04-14 19:05 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-04-14 14:30 ` Jakub Narębski
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