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Archive for April 15th, 2025

git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/15

Empirically, these are show the same behaviour where “command 2″and “command 3″are documented, but still present a lot as the only solution in blog posts and help sites:

git config commands
command 1: list command 2: --list command 3: -l what config is shown
git config list --local git config --list --local git config -l --local --local config for current repository
git config list --global git config --list --global git config -l --global --global config for the current user
git config list --system git config --list --system git config -l --system --system config for all users
git config list git config --list git config -l all 3 levels of config combined, for convenience
without telling which configuration setting is on which level

Based on [Wayback/Archive] git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matteo Meil): Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Leave a Comment »

Rephrasing error messages into heulpful messages

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/15

The problem with error messages is that they just displays errors as a fact without providing the user of future steps.

Offer them with a helpful, actionable message instead.

Not just for people with a visual impairment, I added readable text to the image below.

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Posted in accessibility (a11y), Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux) | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »