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| author | Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> | 2017-08-15 00:12:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-08-14 15:47:56 -0700 |
| commit | 7f0a02be2f2712f66daa730e389f45e3e96f1edd (patch) | |
| tree | 29283dc443852273f63c48f04bf8fa39f3ac1ca5 /Documentation/git.txt | |
| parent | 3b827444811d7eddeddd44850f5dbbb4d59747f5 (diff) | |
| download | git-7f0a02be2f2712f66daa730e389f45e3e96f1edd.tar.gz | |
doc: clarify "config --bool" behaviour with empty stringah/doc-empty-string-is-false
`git config --bool xxx.yyy` returns `true` for `[xxx]yyy` but
`false` for `[xxx]yyy=` or `[xxx]yyy=""`. This is tested in
t1300-repo-config.sh since 09bc098c2.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index cc215361f1..d5ddb38e56 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -571,7 +571,8 @@ example the following invocations are equivalent: Note that omitting the `=` in `git -c foo.bar ...` is allowed and sets `foo.bar` to the boolean true value (just like `[foo]bar` would in a config file). Including the equals but with an empty value (like `git -c -foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string. +foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which ` git config +--bool` will convert to `false`. --exec-path[=<path>]:: Path to wherever your core Git programs are installed. |