On 14 April 2013 22:34, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Usually when I query a variable I'm not so much interested in whether it is at all (explicitly) set to some value or not, but what value is currently in use. With your change in place, how do you know if the config item has been explicitly set in your system? The closest thing I can see for doing this is git config --list, but perhaps there should be a flag to check if a config item is set? More to the point, I can easily imagine many scripts relying on git config returning a value to indicate that a config item has been set. Your proposed change would break all those. For that reason, it might be nicer to introduce a flag that returns the config if it is set or the default otherwise. Something like git config --value perhaps. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html