From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:24:10 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP) Message-ID: <200701170024.10640.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Dnia wtorek 16. stycznia 2007 23:56, Johannes Schindelin napisał: > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> 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