Re: [RFC] gitweb: Add committags support (take 2)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2006, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <200612062135.44658.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsaw3iyp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> By the way, what is the formal structure of the config file? Perhaps
>> something like the notation used in RFC?
> 
> Is there an RFC for .INI format?

I don't think INI is standarized at all. The format of INI files is not well defined. That's why I'd like to know exact format of git INI-like config file format.

But what I meant was description of git config file in (used by RFCs)
augmented Backus-Naur Form (BNF) - RFC 4234.

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>> Is it possible (and doesn't crash current git config parser) having
>>
>>   [gitweb]
>>   	blame = yes
>>   	pickaxe = no
>>   	snapshot = bzip2
>>
>>   [gitweb "committags"]
>>   	message-id = "http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id="
>>   	mantis = "http://bugs.or.cz/view.php?id="
>>   	url
>>   	sha1
>>
>> in the config file?
> 
> If you are asking about [gitweb] stanza and (seemingly
> overlapping) [gitweb "foo"] stanza, we already have prior
> examples:
> 
> 	[diff]
>         	color = auto
>         [diff "color"]
>         	whitespace = blue reverse
> 
> so your example in the above would be legal (the dash in
> 'message-id' part might be questionable, though).

That's what I was asking for. Thanks for an explanation.

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Jakub Narebski