If a user is interacting with their config files primarily by the 'git config' command, using the location flags (--global, --system, etc) then they may be more interested to see the scope of the config file they are editing, rather than the filepath. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- config.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ config.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index e7052b3977..a20110e016 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -3312,6 +3312,23 @@ enum config_scope current_config_scope(void) return current_parsing_scope; } +const char *config_scope_to_string(enum config_scope scope) +{ + switch (scope) { + case CONFIG_SCOPE_SYSTEM: + return _("system"); + case CONFIG_SCOPE_GLOBAL: + return _("global"); + case CONFIG_SCOPE_REPO: + return _("repo"); + case CONFIG_SCOPE_CMDLINE: + return _("cmdline"); + case CONFIG_SCOPE_UNKNOWN: + default: + return _("unknown"); + } +} + int lookup_config(const char **mapping, int nr_mapping, const char *var) { int i; diff --git a/config.h b/config.h index f0ed464004..612f43acd0 100644 --- a/config.h +++ b/config.h @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ enum config_scope { }; enum config_scope current_config_scope(void); +const char *config_scope_to_string(enum config_scope); const char *current_config_origin_type(void); const char *current_config_name(void); -- 2.24.0.393.g34dc348eaf-goog