Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Jan 15, 2007, 07:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20070115070826.GB939@localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200701150144.56793.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> To make gitweb faster I thought about adding to it, or to Git.pm,
> simple nonvalidation config file reader. Nonvalidating means that
> it would accept some input which git-repo-config considers invalid.

How about something like git-for-each-ref that dumps the entire output of a config file into an eval()-able string? That way we don't have to deal with corner-cases and subtle differences between C and Perl implementations.

-- 
Eric Wong

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