Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 15, 2007, 09:03 UTC
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- <200701151003.44498.jnareb@gmail.com>
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- <20070115070826.GB939@localdomain>
Eric Wong wrote:
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> 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.
The idea is (at least for gitweb) to avoid cost of fork. And I think if the format gets documented properly, there should be no differences in config file parsing.
Please remember also that is first draft of git config file reader in perl; an alpha version.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland