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authorLibravatar Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>2020-11-25 22:12:53 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-25 14:43:48 -0800
commitfda43942d7b78d2c529a40e5e38fc34034d929cb (patch)
tree6f602c1edc3d8e75daa87b4d8ae561c99b3b99c9 /Documentation
parentt1300: add test for --replace-all with value-pattern (diff)
downloadtgif-fda43942d7b78d2c529a40e5e38fc34034d929cb.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 0be5499952..09a1d273a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] name [value [value-pattern]]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--fixed-value] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] name [value [value-pattern]]
'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --add name value
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] --replace-all name value [value-pattern]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] --get name [value-pattern]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value-pattern]
-'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--fixed-value] --replace-all name value [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] --get name [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] --get-all name [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--fixed-value] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value-pattern]
'git config' [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL
-'git config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value-pattern]
-'git config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--fixed-value] --unset name [value-pattern]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [--fixed-value] --unset-all name [value-pattern]
'git config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
'git config' [<file-option>] --remove-section name
'git config' [<file-option>] [--show-origin] [--show-scope] [-z|--null] [--name-only] -l | --list
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
--list::
List all variables set in config file, along with their values.
+--fixed-value::
+ When used with the `value-pattern` argument, treat `value-pattern` as
+ an exact string instead of a regular expression. This will restrict
+ the name/value pairs that are matched to only those where the value
+ is exactly equal to the `value-pattern`.
+
--type <type>::
'git config' will ensure that any input or output is valid under the given
type constraint(s), and will canonicalize outgoing values in `<type>`'s