1git-var(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-var - Show a git logical variable 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git var' [ -l | <variable> ] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Prints a git logical variable. 16 17OPTIONS 18------- 19-l:: 20 Cause the logical variables to be listed. In addition, all the 21 variables of the git configuration file .git/config are listed 22 as well. (However, the configuration variables listing functionality 23 is deprecated in favor of 'git config -l'.) 24 25EXAMPLE 26-------- 27 $ git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT 28 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 1121223278 -0600 29 30 31VARIABLES 32---------- 33GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT:: 34 The author of a piece of code. 35 36GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT:: 37 The person who put a piece of code into git. 38 39Diagnostics 40----------- 41You don't exist. Go away!:: 42 The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read 43Your parents must have hated you!:: 44 The passwd(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer. 45Your sysadmin must hate you!:: 46 The passwd(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer. 47 48SEE ALSO 49-------- 50linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] 51linkgit:git-tag[1] 52linkgit:git-config[1] 53 54Author 55------ 56Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 57 58Documentation 59-------------- 60Documentation by Eric Biederman and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 61 62GIT 63--- 64Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite