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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | cache.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | config.c | 18 |
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt index 01f64d187f..b0aeb2e481 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt @@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ will first feed the user-wide one to the callback, and then the repo-specific one; by overwriting, the higher-priority repo-specific value is left at the end). +The `git_config_with_options` function lets the caller examine config +while adjusting some of the default behavior of `git_config`. It should +almost never be used by "regular" git code that is looking up +configuration variables. It is intended for advanced callers like +`git-config`, which are intentionally tweaking the normal config-lookup +process. It takes one extra parameter: + +`filename`:: +If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the name of a file to +parse for configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. Regular +`git_config` defaults to `NULL`. + There is a special version of `git_config` called `git_config_early`. This version takes an additional parameter to specify the repository config, instead of having it looked up via `git_path`. This is useful @@ -1113,6 +1113,7 @@ extern int git_config_from_file(config_fn_t fn, const char *, void *); extern void git_config_push_parameter(const char *text); extern int git_config_from_parameters(config_fn_t fn, void *data); extern int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *); +extern int git_config_with_options(config_fn_t fn, void *, const char *filename); extern int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *, const char *repo_config); extern int git_parse_ulong(const char *, unsigned long *); extern int git_config_int(const char *, const char *); @@ -879,9 +879,6 @@ int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *data, const char *repo_config) int ret = 0, found = 0; const char *home = NULL; - /* Setting $GIT_CONFIG makes git read _only_ the given config file. */ - if (config_exclusive_filename) - return git_config_from_file(fn, config_exclusive_filename, data); if (git_config_system() && !access(git_etc_gitconfig(), R_OK)) { ret += git_config_from_file(fn, git_etc_gitconfig(), data); @@ -917,11 +914,19 @@ int git_config_early(config_fn_t fn, void *data, const char *repo_config) return ret == 0 ? found : ret; } -int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data) +int git_config_with_options(config_fn_t fn, void *data, + const char *filename) { char *repo_config = NULL; int ret; + /* + * If we have a specific filename, use it. Otherwise, follow the + * regular lookup sequence. + */ + if (filename) + return git_config_from_file(fn, filename, data); + repo_config = git_pathdup("config"); ret = git_config_early(fn, data, repo_config); if (repo_config) @@ -929,6 +934,11 @@ int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data) return ret; } +int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data) +{ + return git_config_with_options(fn, data, config_exclusive_filename); +} + /* * Find all the stuff for git_config_set() below. */ |