~/` from the command line to let your shell do the expansion.)
- 'expiry-date': canonicalize by converting from a fixed or relative date-string
to a timestamp. This specifier has no effect when setting the value.
+- 'color': When getting a value, canonicalize by converting to an ANSI color
+ escape sequence. When setting a value, a sanity-check is performed to ensure
+ that the given value is canonicalize-able as an ANSI color, but it is written
+ as-is.
+
--bool::
--bool-or-int::
--path::
--expiry-date::
- Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer instead `--type`,
- (see: above).
+ Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer instead `--type`
+ (see above).
--no-type::
Un-sets the previously set type specifier (if one was previously set). This
output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard
output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if
there is no color configured for `name`.
++
+`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`.
-e::
--edit::
using `--file`, `--global`, etc) and `on` when searching all
config files.
+--default <value>::
+ When using `--get`, and the requested variable is not found, behave as if
+ <value> were the value assigned to the that variable.
+
CONFIGURATION
-------------
`pager.config` is only respected when listing configuration, i.e., when
false, while it is set to `true` for all others:
------------
-% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
+% git config --type=bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
true
-% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
+% git config --type=bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
false
% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookieFile /tmp/cookie.txt
include::config.txt[]
+BUGS
+----
+When using the deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax, changing a value
+will result in adding a multi-line key instead of a change, if the subsection
+is given with at least one uppercase character. For example when the config
+looks like
+
+--------
+ [section.subsection]
+ key = value1
+--------
+
+and running `git config section.Subsection.key value2` will result in
+
+--------
+ [section.subsection]
+ key = value1
+ key = value2
+--------
+
+
GIT
---
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