Re: [QUESTION] How to add new configuration variable

Đoàn Trần Công Danh  [off-list ref] writes:

On 2021-09-17 09:43:18-0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

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Supposed that I'm writing git-foobar script ("git-foobar.sh"), which takes
configuration variable "foobar.something" (string type).

How can I add that configuration variable so that it can be used by the
script?

You can just add it. :) Git doesn't complain when it finds configuration
parameters it doesn't know anything about, it just ignores them.

E.g. in your .gitconfig or individual repository .git/config:

    [foobar]
        something = yourvalue

Or just:

	git config [--global] foobar.something yourvalue

In addition to that, unless it is a script for your throw-away use
that we do not have to worry about, consider if the users of "git
foobar" needs to override a configured value with --no-something or
--something=anothervalue from the command line, and if so, make sure
these command line options are available to them.