Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

[PATCH] git-config: update doc for --get with multiple values

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From: John Keeping <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:59
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Since commit 00b347d (git-config: do not complain about duplicate
entries, 2012-10-23), "git config --get" does not exit with an error if
there are multiple values for the specified key but instead returns the
last value.  Update the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-config.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 19a7be0..fbad05e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --get::
 	Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
 	matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not
-	found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found.
+	found and the last value if multiple key values were found.
 
 --get-all::
 	Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key
-- 
1.8.3.1.747.g77f7d3a
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