List of all repository options and their values

[seschwar]

borg config allows to get and set options for a repository, provided you know the option's name. Unfortunately there's no way to get a list of all available options on the command line. Even in the documentation they aren't listed in a single place. There is no way besides reading through all of the documentation to find out the possible repository options.

Therefore there should be an option to borg config that lists all repository options and their values similar to git config --list, for example.

[SanskritFritz]

Shell tab completions could also benefit from this, so 👍

[bhaveshpoddar94]

First Timer here. Could I try and solve this?

[SanskritFritz]

This is open source. If you have the time and the knowledge, do it, and send a pull request 😄

[twilligon]

I closed a duplicate of this issue, see #3671 for more discussion.

[Gu1nness]

Since argparse is kind of stupid (patched in python 3.7 but not backward compatible)
the only solution I see is to allow
borg config --list <repo> and borg config --delete <repo> <name> but not borg config <repo> --delete <name>
This is because argparse does not handles well mixed optional and positional arguments.
Thus, it would need to modify a little the test suite.

Is it a problem if I do so ?
I have a patch ready for this.

[ThomasWaldmann]

@Gu1nness we already documented that order matters here:
http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/general.html#positional-arguments-and-options-order-matters

If we did not implement that everywhere, please fix it.

[Gu1nness]

Ok perfect.
Then, I'll change this test also in order to be compliant with the documentation.