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Patrick Steinhardt 4179b4897f config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
In order to have git run in a fully controlled environment without any
misconfiguration, it may be desirable for users or scripts to override
global- and system-level configuration files. We already have a way of
doing this, which is to unset both HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment
variables and to set `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=true`. This is quite kludgy,
and unsetting the first two variables likely has an impact on other
executables spawned by such a script.

The obvious way to fix this would be to introduce `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`
as an equivalent to `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. But in the past, it has
turned out that this design is inflexible: we cannot test system-level
parsing of the git configuration in our test harness because there is no
way to change its location, so all tests run with `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`
set.

Instead of doing the same mistake with `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`, introduce
two new variables `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` and `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`:

    - If unset, git continues to use the usual locations.

    - If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal
      configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path
      to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective
      level.

This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized
environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but
is more flexible and allows for more usecases than simply adding
`GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-19 14:16:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 294e949fa2 Merge branch 'ps/config-env-pairs'
Introduce two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs
via environment variables, and tweak the way GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
encodes variable/value pairs to make it more robust.

* ps/config-env-pairs:
  config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
  environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function
  config: store "git -c" variables using more robust format
  config: parse more robust format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
  config: extract function to parse config pairs
  quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function
  config: add new way to pass config via `--config-env`
  git: add `--super-prefix` to usage string
2021-01-25 14:19:19 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt d8d77153ea config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
While we currently have the `GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS` environment variable
which can be used to pass runtime configuration data to git processes,
it's an internal implementation detail and not supposed to be used by
end users.

Next to being for internal use only, this way of passing config entries
has a major downside: the config keys need to be parsed as they contain
both key and value in a single variable. As such, it is left to the user
to escape any potentially harmful characters in the value, which is
quite hard to do if values are controlled by a third party.

This commit thus adds a new way of adding config entries via the
environment which gets rid of this shortcoming. If the user passes the
`GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=$n` environment variable, Git will parse environment
variable pairs `GIT_CONFIG_KEY_$i` and `GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_$i` for each
`i` in `[0,n)`.

While the same can be achieved with `git -c <name>=<value>`, one may
wish to not do so for potentially sensitive information. E.g. if one
wants to set `http.extraHeader` to contain an authentication token,
doing so via `-c` would trivially leak those credentials via e.g. ps(1),
which typically also shows command arguments.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15 13:03:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c902618795 config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp
The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the
optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be
something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says
"POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command
takes is ERE).  Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix
to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the
document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 15:01:31 -08:00
Derrick Stolee fda43942d7 config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented
The 'git config' builtin takes a 'value-pattern' parameter for several
actions. This can cause confusion when expecting exact value matches
instead of regex matches, especially when the input string contains
metacharacters. While callers can escape the patterns themselves, it
would be more friendly to allow an argument to disable the pattern
matching in favor of an exact string match.

Add a new '--fixed-value' option that does not currently change the
behavior. The implementation will be filled in by later changes for
each appropriate action. For now, check and test that --fixed-value
will abort the command when included with an incompatible action or
without a 'value-pattern' argument.

The name '--fixed-value' was chosen over something simpler like
'--fixed' because some commands allow regular expressions on the
key in addition to the value.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 14:43:48 -08:00
Derrick Stolee 247e2f822e config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named,
especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string
matches instead of ERE pattern matches.

Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to
'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation
and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase,
too.

For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This
affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c,
which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'.

I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c
that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name
consistent with the rest of the variables.

This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that
creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should
automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings
currently use "[value_regex]" directly.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 14:43:48 -08:00
Matthew Rogers 145d59f482 config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config value
When a user queries config values with --show-origin, often it's
difficult to determine what the actual "scope" (local, global, etc.) of
a given value is based on just the origin file.

Teach 'git config' the '--show-scope' option to print the scope of all
displayed config values.  Note that we should never see anything of
"submodule" scope as that is only ever used by submodule-config.c when
parsing the '.gitmodules' file.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-10 10:49:12 -08:00
Martin Ågren 1925fe0c8a Documentation: wrap config listings in "----"
The indented lines in these example config-file listings are indented
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor.

Fix this by marking the example config-files as code listings by
wrapping them in "----". Because this gives us some extra indentation,
we can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is,
drop the first tab of indentation on each line.

With AsciiDoc, this results in identical rendering before and after this
commit. Asciidoctor now renders this the same as AsciiDoc does.

git-config.txt pretty consistently uses twelve dashes rather than the
minimum four to spell "----". Let's stick to the file-local convention
there.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-09 11:05:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6d281f70cc Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more'
Documentation mark-up fixes.

* ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more:
  Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
  git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered
  git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation
  config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash
  config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
2019-04-16 19:28:04 +09:00
Jeff King cd8e7593b9 config: document --type=color output is a complete line
Even though the newer "--type=color" option to "git config" is meant
to be upward compatible with the traditional "--get-color" option,
unlike the latter, its output is not an incomplete line that lack
the LF at the end.  That makes it consistent with output of other
types like "git config --type=bool".

Document it, as it sometimes surprises unsuspecting users.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 12:48:35 +09:00
Martin Ågren 8d75a1d183 Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too
much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might
be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were
found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:25:32 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 58b284a2e9 worktree: add per-worktree config files
A new repo extension is added, worktreeConfig. When it is present:

 - Repository config reading by default includes $GIT_DIR/config _and_
   $GIT_DIR/config.worktree. "config" file remains shared in multiple
   worktree setup.

 - The special treatment for core.bare and core.worktree, to stay
   effective only in main worktree, is gone. These config settings are
   supposed to be in config.worktree.

This extension is most useful in multiple worktree setup because you
now have an option to store per-worktree config (which is either
.git/config.worktree for main worktree, or
.git/worktrees/xx/config.worktree for linked ones).

This extension can be used in single worktree mode, even though it's
pretty much useless (but this can happen after you remove all linked
worktrees and move back to single worktree).

"git config" reads from both "config" and "config.worktree" by default
(i.e. without either --user, --file...) when this extension is
present. Default writes still go to "config", not "config.worktree". A
new option --worktree is added for that (*).

Since a new repo extension is introduced, existing git binaries should
refuse to access to the repo (both from main and linked worktrees). So
they will not misread the config file (i.e. skip the config.worktree
part). They may still accidentally write to the config file anyway if
they use with "git config --file <path>".

This design places a bet on the assumption that the majority of config
variables are shared so it is the default mode. A safer move would be
default writes go to per-worktree file, so that accidental changes are
isolated.

(*) "git config --worktree" points back to "config" file when this
    extension is not present and there is only one worktree so that it
    works in any both single and multiple worktree setups.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-22 13:17:04 +09:00
Martin Ågren 08caa95a27 git-config.txt: fix 'see: above' note
Rather than saying "(see: above)", drop the colon. Also drop the comma
before this note.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-20 12:00:16 -07:00
Martin Ågren ed3bb3dfc7 Doc: use `--type=bool` instead of `--bool`
After fb0dc3bac1 (builtin/config.c: support `--type=<type>` as preferred
alias for `--<type>`, 2018-04-18) we have a more modern way of spelling
`--bool`.

Update all instances except those that explicitly document the
"historical options" in git-config.txt. The other old-style
type-specifiers already seem to be gone except for in that list of
historical options.

Tweak the grammar a little in config.txt while we are there.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-20 11:52:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2a2c18f1c3 Merge branch 'sb/config-write-fix'
Recent update to "git config" broke updating variable in a
subsection, which has been corrected.

* sb/config-write-fix:
  git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax
  config: fix case sensitive subsection names on writing
  t1300: document current behavior of setting options
2018-08-20 12:41:32 -07:00
Stefan Beller bff7df7a87 git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax
The bug was noticed when writing the previous patch; a fix for this bug
is not easy though: If we choose to ignore the case of the subsection
(and revert most of the code of the previous patch, just keeping
s/strncasecmp/strcmp/), then we'd introduce new sections using the
new syntax, such that

 --------
   [section.subsection]
     key = value1
 --------

  git config section.Subsection.key value2

would result in

 --------
   [section.subsection]
     key = value1
   [section.Subsection]
     key = value2
 --------

which is even more confusing. A proper fix would replace the first
occurrence of 'key'. As the syntax is deprecated, let's prefer to not
spend time on fixing the behavior and just document it instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08 13:26:48 -07:00
Taylor Blau 63e2a0f8e9 builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier
As of this commit, the canonical way to retreive an ANSI-compatible
color escape sequence from a configuration file is with the
`--get-color` action.

This is to allow Git to "fall back" on a default value for the color
should the given section not exist in the specified configuration(s).

With the addition of `--default`, this is no longer needed since:

  $ git config --default red --type=color core.section

will be have exactly as:

  $ git config --get-color core.section red

For consistency, let's introduce `--type=color` and encourage its use
with `--default` together over `--get-color` alone.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-23 22:52:20 +09:00
Taylor Blau eeaa24b990 builtin/config: introduce `--default`
For some use cases, callers of the `git-config(1)` builtin would like to
fallback to default values when the variable asked for does not exist.
In addition, users would like to use existing type specifiers to ensure
that values are parsed correctly when they do exist in the
configuration.

For example, to fetch a value without a type specifier and fallback to
`$fallback`, the following is required:

  $ git config core.foo || echo "$fallback"

This is fine for most values, but can be tricky for difficult-to-express
`$fallback`'s, like ANSI color codes.

This motivates `--get-color`, which is a one-off exception to the normal
type specifier rules wherein a user specifies both the configuration
variable and an optional fallback. Both are formatted according to their
type specifier, which eases the burden on the user to ensure that values
are correctly formatted.

This commit (and those following it in this series) aim to eventually
replace `--get-color` with a consistent alternative. By introducing
`--default`, we allow the `--get-color` action to be promoted to a
`--type=color` type specifier, retaining the "fallback" behavior via the
`--default` flag introduced in this commit.

For example, we aim to replace:

  $ git config --get-color variable [default] [...]

with:

  $ git config --default default --type=color variable [...]

Values filled by `--default` behave exactly as if they were present in
the affected configuration file; they will be parsed by type specifiers
without the knowledge that they are not themselves present in the
configuration.

Specifically, this means that the following will work:

  $ git config --int --default 1M does.not.exist
  1048576

In subsequent commits, we will offer `--type=color`, which (in
conjunction with `--default`) will be sufficient to replace
`--get-color`.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-23 22:51:38 +09:00
Taylor Blau fb0dc3bac1 builtin/config.c: support `--type=<type>` as preferred alias for `--<type>`
`git config` has long allowed the ability for callers to provide a 'type
specifier', which instructs `git config` to (1) ensure that incoming
values can be interpreted as that type, and (2) that outgoing values are
canonicalized under that type.

In another series, we propose to extend this functionality with
`--type=color` and `--default` to replace `--get-color`.

However, we traditionally use `--color` to mean "colorize this output",
instead of "this value should be treated as a color".

Currently, `git config` does not support this kind of colorization, but
we should be careful to avoid squatting on this option too soon, so that
`git config` can support `--color` (in the traditional sense) in the
future, if that is desired.

In this patch, we support `--type=<int|bool|bool-or-int|...>` in
addition to `--int`, `--bool`, and etc. This allows the aforementioned
upcoming patch to support querying a color value with a default via
`--type=color --default=...`, without squandering `--color`.

We retain the historic behavior of complaining when multiple,
legacy-style `--<type>` flags are given, as well as extend this to
conflicting new-style `--type=<type>` flags. `--int --type=int` (and its
commutative pair) does not complain, but `--bool --type=int` (and its
commutative pair) does.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-19 11:49:19 +09:00
Martin Ågren c0e9f5be87 config: change default of `pager.config` to "on"
This is similar to ff1e72483 (tag: change default of `pager.tag` to
"on", 2017-08-02) and is safe now that we do not consider `pager.config`
at all when we are not listing or getting configuration. This change
will help with listing large configurations, but will not hurt users of
`git config --edit` as it would have before the previous commit.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-21 14:27:30 -08:00
Martin Ågren 32888b8fd5 config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.config` when we are listing or "get"ing config.

We have several getters and some are guaranteed to give at most one line
of output. Paging all getters including those could be convenient from a
documentation point-of-view. The downside would be that a misconfigured
or not so modern pager might wait for user interaction before
terminating. Let's instead respect the config for precisely those
getters which may produce more than one line of output.

`--get-urlmatch` may or may not produce multiple lines of output,
depending on the exact usage. Let's not try to recognize the two modes,
but instead make `--get-urlmatch` always respect the config. Analyzing
the detailed usage might be trivial enough here, but could establish a
precedent that we will never be able to enforce throughout the codebase
and that will just open a can of worms.

This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git config foo.bar bar` and `git config --get foo.bar`
respects `pager.config`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-21 14:27:29 -08:00
Haaris Mehmood 5f9674243d config: add --expiry-date
Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when
'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative
or fixed dates from config files as timestamps.

This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work
with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format
acceptable by those scripts/functions.

Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move
the helper function required for this feature from
builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar
functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match
the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output
pointer as first parameter).

Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-18 12:31:29 +09:00
Nathan Payre 32fceba3fd config doc: clarify "git config --path" example
Change the word "bla" to "section.variable"; "bla" is a placeholder
for a variable name but it wasn't clear for everyone.

While we're here, also reformat this sample command line to use
monospace instead of italics, to better match the rest of the file.

Use a space instead of a dash in "git config", as is common in the
rest of Git's documentation.

Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: MOY Matthieu <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-19 13:52:49 +09:00
Junio C Hamano a8998453be Merge branch 'dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc'
The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
override, and if so how?"

* dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc:
  doc: mention `git -c` in git-config(1)
2016-08-25 13:55:07 -07:00
David Glasser ae1f7094f7 doc: mention `git -c` in git-config(1)
Signed-off-by: David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23 10:55:58 -07:00
Matthieu Moy bb72e10a41 doc: typeset long options with argument as literal
We previously reformatted '--option' to `--option`. This patch reformats
'--option <arg>' to `--option <arg>`. Obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]* <[^>]*>)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy bcf9626a71 doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Tom Russello 47d81b5c7a doc: more consistency in environment variables format
Wrap with backticks (monospaced font) unwrapped or single-quotes wrapped
(italic type) environment variables which are followed by the word
"environment". It was obtained with:

perl -pi -e "s/\'?(\\\$?[0-9A-Z\_]+)\'?(?= environment ?)/\`\1\`/g" *.txt

One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so
that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely
to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines).

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:37 -07:00
Stefan Beller 376eb604c2 config doc: improve exit code listing
The possible reasons for exiting are now ordered by the exit code value.
While at it, rewrite the `can not write to the config file` to
`the config file cannot be written` to be grammatically correct and a
proper sentence.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-26 11:32:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0759dfdd9c Merge branch 'jk/config-get-urlmatch' into maint
"git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git
config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status
when there was no matching configuration.

* jk/config-get-urlmatch:
  Documentation/git-config: fix --get-all description
  Documentation/git-config: use bulleted list for exit codes
  config: fail if --get-urlmatch finds no value
2016-04-14 18:57:43 -07:00
John Keeping 24990b2feb Documentation/git-config: fix --get-all description
--get does not fail if a key is multi-valued, it returns the last value
as described in its documentation.  Clarify the description of --get-all
to avoid implying that --get does fail in this case.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-28 12:01:45 -08:00
John Keeping 94c5b0e8b9 Documentation/git-config: use bulleted list for exit codes
Using a numbered list is confusing because the exit codes are not listed
in order so the numbers at the start of each line do not match the exit
codes described by the following text.  Switch to a bulleted list so
that the only number appearing on each line is the exit code described.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-28 12:01:45 -08:00
John Keeping 27b30be686 config: fail if --get-urlmatch finds no value
The --get, --get-all and --get-regexp options to git-config exit with
status 1 if the key is not found but --get-urlmatch succeeds in this
case.

Change --get-urlmatch to behave in the same way as the other --get*
options so that all four are consistent.  --get-color is a special case
because it accepts a default value to return and so should not return an
error if the key is not found.

Also clarify this behaviour in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-28 12:01:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano dd0f567f10 Merge branch 'ls/config-origin'
The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.

* ls/config-origin:
  config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
  config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
  rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
  t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
2016-02-26 13:37:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 895f20de9e Merge branch 'jk/config-include'
* jk/config-include:
  git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`
2016-02-22 13:14:48 -08:00
Lars Schneider 70bd879ab6 config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
If config values are queried using 'git config' (e.g. via --get,
--get-all, --get-regexp, or --list flag) then it is sometimes hard to
find the configuration file where the values were defined.

Teach 'git config' the '--show-origin' option to print the source
configuration file for every printed value.

Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 09:43:48 -08:00
Jeff King 753a2cda11 git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`
As described in the commit message of 9b25a0b (config: add
include directive, 2012-02-06), the `--include` option is
only on by default in some cases. But our documentation
described it as just "defaults to on", which doesn't tell
the whole story.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-13 12:51:31 -08:00
SZEDER Gábor 578625fa91 config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable names
'git config' can only show values or name-value pairs, so if a shell
script needs the names of set config variables it has to run 'git config
--list' or '--get-regexp' and parse the output to separate config
variable names from their values.  However, such a parsing can't cope
with multi-line values.  Though 'git config' can produce null-terminated
output for newline-safe parsing, that's of no use in such a case, becase
shells can't cope with null characters.

Even our own bash completion script suffers from these issues.

Help the completion script, and shell scripts in general, by introducing
the '--name-only' option to modify the output of '--list' and
'--get-regexp' to list only the names of config variables, so they don't
have to perform error-prone post processing to separate variable names
from their values anymore.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10 10:33:58 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy da0005b885 *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.

 - am.keepcr
 - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
 - diff.dirstat .noprefix
 - gitcvs.usecrlfattr
 - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
 - pull.twohead
 - receive.autogc
 - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13 22:13:46 -07:00
Jason St. John 06ab60c066 Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21 13:57:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a0a08d48d0 Merge branch 'jc/url-match'
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be
treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the
mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables.

This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work.

* jc/url-match:
  builtin/config.c: compilation fix
  config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
  builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
  config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
  config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key
  config: add helper to normalize and match URLs
  http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
2013-09-09 14:50:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d4770964d5 config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new
mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values
for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific
URL.

    git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url>

With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for
<section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the
given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used)
and reported.  For example, with this configuration:

    [http]
        sslVerify
    [http "https://weak.example.com"]
        cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
        sslVerify = false

You would get

    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com
    true
    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com
    false

With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables
in the section with their values that apply to the given URL.  E.g

    $ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
    http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
    http.sslverify false

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 16:02:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5ecc4b53f7 Merge branch 'rr/maint-tilde-markup-in-doc'
* rr/maint-tilde-markup-in-doc:
  config doc: quote paths, fixing tilde-interpretation
2013-07-31 12:38:15 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra 5ff0c0e875 config doc: quote paths, fixing tilde-interpretation
The --global section of git-config(1) currently reads like:

  For writing options: write to global /.gitconfig file rather than the
                                       ^
				       start tilde

  repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if
  this file exists and the/.gitconfig file doesn’t.
                          ^
			  end tilde

Instead of tilde (~) being interpreted literally, asciidoc subscripts
the text between the two tildes.  To fix this problem, use backticks (`)
to quote all the paths in the file uniformly, just like config.txt does.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-26 08:55:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c714f9fd8a Merge branch 'hv/config-from-blob'
Allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob objects,
which would help working in a bare repository and submodule
updates.

* hv/config-from-blob:
  do not die when error in config parsing of buf occurs
  teach config --blob option to parse config from database
  config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source
  config: drop cf validity check in get_next_char()
  config: factor out config file stack management
2013-07-22 11:24:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b6538a0b4e Merge branch 'nk/config-local-doc' into maint
* nk/config-local-doc:
  config: Add description of --local option
2013-07-21 22:51:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e70aee5c86 Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-multi-order'
* jk/maint-config-multi-order:
  git-config(1): clarify precedence of multiple values
2013-07-12 12:04:04 -07:00
Heiko Voigt 1bc888193e teach config --blob option to parse config from database
This can be used to read configuration values directly from git's
database. For example it is useful for reading to be checked out
.gitmodules files directly from the database.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:34:57 -07:00
John Keeping 7da9800fff git-config(1): clarify precedence of multiple values
In order to clarify which value is used when there are multiple values
defined for a key, re-order the list of file locations so that it runs
from least specific to most specific.  Then add a paragraph which simply
says that the last value will be used.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-07 13:34:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 56df44a987 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.8.3.3
  git-config: update doc for --get with multiple values
2013-07-03 15:43:49 -07:00