hk config explain

• How to hail it: hk config explain <KEY>
• Effect: read-only (looks, never touches)

Explain where a configuration value hails from

Shows the resolved value, the source it came from (cli, env, git, pkl, or defaults), and every layer that could sway it, in precedence order. Aye, ye see the whole chain of command, rank by rank, not only the value at the end of it.

Cargo it takes

• <KEY> — The configuration key ye want explained

Flags to fly

• -h --help — Print help, for when ye've lost yer bearings

Tales from the deck

Find which source supplies a runtime setting, and ye'll know where it hails from.

hk config explain jobs
hk config explain exclude

Further charts

Configuration guide: the ship's charts · Troubleshooting: the ship's log · All the bosun's calls