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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2007, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <200701151700.48159.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860701150734j7322de15v30dc6822b456ea66@mail.gmail.com>

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

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> On 1/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
>>>> Would you write "git repo-config --perl", then? ;-)
> 
>>> The below patch should be a start (only tested on my fairly standard
>>> .git/config).  A --python option should be easy, too :)
> 
>> A bit shorter (and gets the booleans right, plus being even easier
>> towards --python extension):
> 
> If we're going down this slippery slope, why not just give up and add
> a --xml switch instead?  Readable by all and a lot more flexible than
> --perl, --python, --ruby, --tcl, --sh, --c++, --fortran, --lisp,
> --html, --that-next-silver-bullet-language [...].
> 
> That said, parsing the config file as-is can't be so difficult that we
> need to export it to separate files with a different syntax, now can
> it?

Parsing the config file is not _that_ difficult (the first post in this thread had config reader in Perl), but it is not that easy: case (in)setiviness, quoting, escaping, comments, removing leading and trailing whitespace when not quoted...

P.S. I'd rather have an additional implementation (in Perl) conforming to yet to be written git ini-like config file specs, to find places where canonic parser, git-repo-config, doesn't conform to the specs.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland