Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> As for the FIXME: [...]
Please read original message carefully:
>> Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp
>> and --list use different output format?
I think the FIXME is for --get-regexp. And was added by the patch.
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> If you have a config like this:
>
> [core]
> Some = where
> over
> the = core.rainbow
>
> git-config -z would output something like this:
>
> core.some\0where\0core.over\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0
>
> Right?
False. Delim is different from term. You would get
core.some\nwhere\0core.over\0core.the\ncore.rainbow\0
> As you can see, it is quite hard for a parser to find out what is
> key, and what is value.
local $/ = "\0";
while (my $line = <$fd>) {
chomp $line;
my ($key, $value) = split(/\n/, $line, 2); push @{$config{$key}}, $value if defined $key;
}--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>