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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2007, 22:37 UTC
Message-ID: <200701162337.32759.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860701161417r650bc47fva92fa940b4e2cfc0@mail.gmail.com>

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> On 1/16/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> But I agree that XML is serious overkill...
> 
> I don't know if it was clear from my first mail, but I wasn't
> suggesting --xml as a serious alternative.  My point was that if we're
> going to go through all the fuss of adding all these switches for
> outputting the configuration file in some fixed format, why not go
> with one that at least is universal in some sense (not necessarily
> XML).  And, as Johannes already pointed out, it's very disturbing
> having to dump a configuration file so that it is more easily read by
> other programs.  That would suggest that the ini-based format for
> git's configuration file is suboptimal.

No, ini-based, or rather ini-like format for git configuration
is nice, but I think git is too forgiving in accepting input.
Examples: section header and key/value pair in the same line,
allowing multiple quotes in in value part.

Well, the idea I had was to have --dump switch to git-repo-config to dump init file as if it was created by git-repo-config invocations, without any hand editing (canonical format).

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Jakub Narebski
Poland