Re: [QUESTION] how to find options set by scalar?

On 9/18/2025 4:29 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Matthew Hughes [off-list ref] writes:

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I was also looking through the list of config options (within
`set_recommended_config`) and thought it might also be useful to comment why
each those settings are recommended in the context of working within a large
repository.

That would be ultra useful.

I think all of these ideas are good ones. Adding the comment as Patrick
described is good, for sure.

Instead of commenting the _reason_ in code or in the config, it would be
good to list the reasons for each recommended config in the Scalar docs
so they would be visible in web docs [1] for easy discovery.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/scalar

It seems like Patrick is already 80% of the way to a patch for the
comment in the config. I'll see if I can carve out some time next week
for the commentary on the config options in the Documentation.

Thanks,
-Stolee