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| author | SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> | 2015-08-10 11:46:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-08-10 10:33:58 -0700 |
| commit | 578625fa918922713a2ecce2b06611e4566778f5 (patch) | |
| tree | c52e008410a474e5640c02d1093e1cb99e29cce9 /contrib | |
| parent | 77bd3ea9f54f1584147b594abc04c26ca516d987 (diff) | |
| download | git-578625fa918922713a2ecce2b06611e4566778f5.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index bfc74e9d57..e9877e1fc8 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -1887,6 +1887,7 @@ _git_config () --get --get-all --get-regexp --add --unset --unset-all --remove-section --rename-section + --name-only " return ;; |