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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2005-11-24 11:36:01 +0100
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Rename git-config-set to git-repo-config
... and adjust all references. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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+git-repo-config(1)
+==================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-repo-config - Get and set options in .git/config.
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-repo-config' name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-repo-config' --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-repo-config' --get name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' --get-all name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' --unset name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' --unset-all name [value_regex]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is
+actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be
+escaped.
+
+If you want to set/unset an option which can occor on multiple lines, you
+should provide a POSIX regex for the value. If you want to handle the lines
+*not* matching the regex, just prepend a single exlamation mark in front
+(see EXAMPLES).
+
+This command will fail if
+
+. .git/config is invalid,
+. .git/config can not be written to,
+. no section was provided,
+. the section or key is invalid,
+. you try to unset an option which does not exist, or
+. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match.
+
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+--replace-all::
+ Default behaviour is to replace at most one line. This replaces
+ all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex)
+
+--get::
+ Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
+ matching the value).
+
+--get-all::
+ Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key
+ is not exactly one.
+
+--unset::
+ Remove the line matching the key from .git/config.
+
+--unset-all::
+ Remove all matching lines from .git/config.
+
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+
+Given a .git/config like this:
+
+ #
+ # This is the config file, and
+ # a '#' or ';' character indicates
+ # a comment
+ #
+
+ ; core variables
+ [core]
+ ; Don't trust file modes
+ filemode = false
+
+ ; Our diff algorithm
+ [diff]
+ external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u"
+ renames = true
+
+ ; Proxy settings
+ [proxy]
+ command="ssh" for "ssh://kernel.org/"
+ command="proxy-command" for kernel.org
+ command="myprotocol-command" for "my://"
+ command=default-proxy ; for all the rest
+
+you can set the filemode to true with
+
+------------
+% git repo-config core.filemode true
+------------
+
+The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
+to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
+to "ssh".
+
+------------
+% git repo-config proxy.command '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
+------------
+
+This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.
+
+To delete the entry for renames, do
+
+------------
+% git repo-config --unset diff.renames
+------------
+
+If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like proxy.command above),
+you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly one line.
+
+To query the value for a given key, do
+
+------------
+% git repo-config --get core.filemode
+------------
+
+or
+
+------------
+% git repo-config core.filemode
+------------
+
+or, to query a multivar:
+
+------------
+% git repo-config --get proxy.command "for kernel.org$"
+------------
+
+If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
+
+------------
+% git repo-config --get-all proxy.command
+------------
+
+If you like to live dangerous, you can replace *all* proxy.commands by a
+new one with
+
+------------
+% git repo-config --replace-all proxy.command ssh
+------------
+
+However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy,
+i.e. the one without a "for ..." postfix, do something like this:
+
+------------
+% git repo-config proxy.command ssh '! for '
+------------
+
+To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
+
+------------
+% git repo-config section.key value '[!]'
+------------
+
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+