Yukai Chou <muzimuzhi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The v2.46.0 doc of git-config(1) says > >> --name-only >> Output only the names of config variables for `list` or `get`. > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt---name-only > > But the behavior of --name-only is more like "disable non-name outputs > and leave the output state of names as-is". Thus using --name-only > alone, one gets totally empty lines (which might be weird); only using > --name-only and --show-names together, can one get output of just > names. > > # get empty line(s) > git config get --all --name-only remote.origin.fetch > # get lines of name(s) > git config get --all --show-names --name-only remote.origin.fetch > > Either the doc or the behavior of --name-only needs some adjustment. This argues for making "all" imply we need to show the name of the configuration variable, and introducing an option "--hide-name" to omit the name. That way, you'd need to give clearly contradicting "--hide-name" and "--name-only" together to get a nonsense output.
