On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:06:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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/. Thanks; I was unaware of this convention. I have changed "slot" to "variable" as you suggested in the subsequent re-roll. Thanks, Taylor
