Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: May 8, 2006, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID: <1147101345.27362.15.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <7vody8howu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 02:00 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Stating what you do not like about something is a good first
> step to improve that something.  It should not be too hard to
> extend the parser to grok:
> 
> 	repo-config --get branchdata.description '\(.*\) for netdev$'
> 
> and when the value_regex has a capture return what matches
> instead of the entire value.  I think that would do what you
> want.

OK, that would be acceptable.

I still don't like the "for" conversion because it masquerades syntax (note that text to right of "for" must be unique) as plain text, but it's a matter of taste, so it's hard for me to argue about it.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin