Allow passing of configuration parameters in the command line

The values passed this way will override whatever is defined
in the config files.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 6bae30545b..99f036302a 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const char git_usage_string[] =
 	"git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path]\n"
 	"           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]\n"
 	"           [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]\n"
+	"           [-c name=value\n"
 	"           [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
 
 const char git_more_info_string[] =
@@ -130,6 +131,14 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged)
 			setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, getcwd(git_dir, sizeof(git_dir)), 0);
 			if (envchanged)
 				*envchanged = 1;
+		} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "-c")) {
+			if (*argc < 2) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "-c expects a configuration string\n" );
+				usage(git_usage_string);
+			}
+			git_config_parse_parameter((*argv)[1]);
+			(*argv)++;
+			(*argc)--;
 		} else {
 			fprintf(stderr, "Unknown option: %s\n", cmd);
 			usage(git_usage_string);