From: milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:40 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections
Message-ID: <20110829054240.GB94231@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1314579031.10094.19.camel@umgah.localdomain>

On 20:50 Sun 28 Aug     , Alex Vandiver wrote:
> For reference, https://github.com/bestpractical/config-gitlike/ is a
> complete parser for git config files written in perl, which passes git's
> config test suite (among other tests).  Which is not terribly
> surprising, since its parsing algorithm is strongly derived from
> config.c's.

Yes, I've been looking at it and forked a majority of it into python,
but I can't seem to replicate some of the expected quoting behaviour of
git-config, among other things (now off-topic). My implementation so
far can be seen at [0]. A user gave me a link [1] to his git-config
and I cannot correctly parse, for example, his alias.last.

-milki


[0] https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/pull/31#issuecomment-1918904
[1] https://github.com/kergoth/homefiles/blob/master/.gitconfig#L67