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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2007, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <200701170024.10640.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701162352400.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Dnia wtorek 16. stycznia 2007 23:56, Johannes Schindelin napisał:

> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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>> 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).
> 
> My point still stands: if you already parse the user-friendly format, why 
> not dump a parse friendly format? If it weren't for those darn non-alnums 
> in the keys, out put of "git repo-config -l" would be perfectly 
> acceptable.
> 
> So, how about a "git repo-config --dump" which outputs a stream of NUL 
> separated keys and values? This should be really easy to "parse", and 
> there are no ambiguities: No key or value can contain a NUL.

Good idea, although "\n" would work as well as NUL.

The only problem is with "key without value" case, i.e. something like

  [section]
  	noval

which shows as

  section.noval

in "git repo-config -l" output (note missing '=' !), and I guess differs for some case from

  [section]
  	noval =

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland