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| author |  Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> | 2013-07-12 00:46:47 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-12 09:34:57 -0700 |
| commit | 1bc888193e1044db317a45b9a4c8d2b87b998f40 (patch) | |
| tree | 79065e0a9e226c1da33366688e0b41d9d45b5463 /Documentation | |
| parent | config: make parsing stack struct independent from actual data source (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1bc888193e1044db317a45b9a4c8d2b87b998f40.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 9ae2508f3f..f0e179e38d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ See also <<FILES>>. --file config-file:: Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG. +--blob blob:: + Similar to '--file' but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. + you can use 'master:.gitmodules' to read values from the file + '.gitmodules' in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" + section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for a more complete list of + ways to spell blob names. + --remove-section:: Remove the given section from the configuration file. |