Merging upstream version 0.12.2.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+layout: post
+title: Tooling for troubleshooting configuration
+excerpt: Getting the final configuration and the sources of values
+---
+
+*(This change is in **v0.12.0+**)*
+
+Inspired by [this blog post about reporting configuration file locations](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ReportConfigFileLocations)
+and the [ensuing HackerNews commentary](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36465886).
+I've added the `config get` and `config blame` management commands for getting the
+final configuration and the source of each property in the configuration, respectively.
+I had previously added the file locations used by **lnav** in the `lnav -h` output as
+recommended by the blog post.  But, the HN comments made a good case for adding the
+the other troubleshooting tooling as well.
+
+If you would like to try out these new commands, you need to run lnav with the `-m`
+option to switch to the "management" mode.  For example, just running lnav with this
+flag will print out the available operations:
+
+```console
+$ lnav -m
+✘ error: expecting an operation to perform
+ = help: the available operations are:
+          • config: perform operations on the lnav configuration
+          • format: perform operations on log file formats
+          • piper: perform operations on piper storage
+          • regex101: create and edit log message regular expressions using regex101.com
+```
+
+Executing `config get` will print out the final configuration that lnav is operating
+with as JSON:
+
+```console
+$ lnav -m config get
+```
+
+If you would like to know the source of the value for each property, you can use
+the `config blame` command, like so:
+
+```console
+$ lnav -m config blame | tail
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/black -> solarized-light.json:15
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/blue -> solarized-light.json:21
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/cyan -> solarized-light.json:22
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/green -> solarized-light.json:23
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/magenta -> solarized-light.json:19
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/orange -> solarized-light.json:17
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/red -> solarized-light.json:18
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/semantic_highlight_color -> solarized-light.json:24
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/violet -> solarized-light.json:20
+/ui/theme-defs/solarized-light/vars/yellow -> solarized-light.json:16
+```
+
+In the above output, "solarized-light.json" file is built into the lnav
+executable and is not from the file system.