From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:48:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add config_int() method to the Git perl module
Message-ID: <20071124114839.GC17861@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vabp4u40y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:59:25AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Maybe in a similar way, we might want to add --color to "git
> config" to return ANSI sequence, so that Git::config_color() can
> work without even loading Term::ANSIColor?

We would also need a way of parsing the 'default' values, so git-config
would need a way of saying "turn this value into its internal
representation" (or the perl script would have to specify its defaults
as raw ANSI codes, which is a bit ugly, but is that the C programs do).

-Peff