[QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[Bagas Sanjaya]

Hi,

Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which 
takes configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).

How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the 
script?

-- 
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Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which takes
> configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).
> 
> How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the
> script?

You can just add it. :) Git doesn't complain when it finds configuration
parameters it doesn't know anything about, it just ignores them.

E.g. in your .gitconfig or individual repository .git/config:

    [foobar]
        something = yourvalue

-K

Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[Đoàn Trần Công Danh]

On 2021-09-17 09:43:18-0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which takes
> > configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).
> > 
> > How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the
> > script?
> 
> You can just add it. :) Git doesn't complain when it finds configuration
> parameters it doesn't know anything about, it just ignores them.
> 
> E.g. in your .gitconfig or individual repository .git/config:
> 
>     [foobar]
>         something = yourvalue

Or just:

	git config [--global] foobar.something yourvalue

-- 
Danh

Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[Junio C Hamano]

Đoàn Trần Công Danh  <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2021-09-17 09:43:18-0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> > Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which takes
>> > configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).
>> > 
>> > How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the
>> > script?
>> 
>> You can just add it. :) Git doesn't complain when it finds configuration
>> parameters it doesn't know anything about, it just ignores them.
>> 
>> E.g. in your .gitconfig or individual repository .git/config:
>> 
>>     [foobar]
>>         something = yourvalue
>
> Or just:
>
> 	git config [--global] foobar.something yourvalue

In addition to that, unless it is a script for your throw-away use
that we do not have to worry about, consider if the users of "git
foobar" needs to override a configured value with --no-something or
--something=anothervalue from the command line, and if so, make sure
these command line options are available to them.

Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

[Carlo Arenas]

you might want this in --global instead, but assuming it is ok to be
repository specific:

$ git config foobar.something baz

and in your script

  baz=$(git config foobar.something)

Carlo