Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For some use cases, callers of the `git-config(1)` builtin would like to > fallback to default values when the slot asked for does not exist. In > addition, users would like to use existing type specifiers to ensure > that values are parsed correctly when they do exist in the > configuration. > ... > +--default value:: > + When using `--get`, and the requested slot is not found, behave as if value > + were the value assigned to the that slot. For "diff.<slot>.color", the above is OK, but in general, configuration variables are not called "slot". s/slot/variable/.
