Re: Why does "git config" output nothing instead of the default value for unset variables?

On 14 April 2013 22:34, Sebastian Schuberth [off-list ref] 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