Who set that option?

Peter Arrenbrecht peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 11:38:25 CDT 2008


mpm told me on IRC he is working on a new config parser that will
allow you to pinpoint the source of config elements. Nice!
-peo

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht
<peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Andreas Axelsson
>  <andreas.axelsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > It'd be nice to have an option to showconfig which would show where a
>  > setting originated from. I just tracked down the source of a bogus
>  > configuration entry by greping the entire disk.
>  >
>  > I'm currently working on setting up a proper working build environment here
>  > on a clean machine, and when I get it to work properly I could give it a go
>  > if anyone's interested.
>
>  I've been looking into this too, just didn't get around to it yet. I
>  don't think it's easy given the current options parser. But simply
>  tracking all the config files getting loaded /would/ be easy. If you
>  output those, you can then target your grep much better, so I think it
>  might do. Tell me if you go for it, 'cause then I won't. ;)
>
>  -peo
>


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