From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:02:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
Message-ID: <20070622120217.GP19725@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <200706220156.01175.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:56:00AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> >  Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp
> >  and --list use different output format?
> 
> I don't know, but at least two scripts use --get-regexp, namely
> git-remote and git-submodule. So we would have to be careful about
> changing that.
>  
> 
> I would be enough to add the following to your patch:

Yeah, I found this a but ugly though so I left it out of the first
patch in case someone had a better idea. Will include that in the
second version (which will also include documentation).

> By the way, I have tried to use git-config --null to redo config
> file parsing in gitweb, so one git-config call would be needed for
> all the config. I have noticed that --bool option description does
> not describe the observed behavior fully. For example it returns
> 'true' not only for '1', but for any integer != 0, including 0xdeadbeef.

Yeah, the description of --bool is very incomplete. Note that empty
values are false, and keys without values are true. I think this all
are valid choices, but they are indeed not documented.

Gruesse.
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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