From c902618795eee5dbc88ded238d0a359091ab0dee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:01:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says "POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command takes is ERE). Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-config.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 09a1d273a9..0e9351d3cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -33,10 +33,13 @@ escaped. Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the `--add` option. If you want to update or unset an option which can occur on multiple -lines, a POSIX regexp `value-pattern` needs to be given. Only the -existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If -you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the regex, just -prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <>). +lines, a `value-pattern` (which is an extended regular expression, +unless the `--fixed-value` option is given) needs to be given. Only the +existing values that match the pattern are updated or unset. If +you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the pattern, just +prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <>), +but note that this only works when the `--fixed-value` option is not +in use. The `--type=` option instructs 'git config' to ensure that incoming and outgoing values are canonicalize-able under the given . If no