Re: General support for ! in git-config values

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 3, 2012, 12:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20120203120936.GC31441@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ=bq++R+X+2r2_zQ4UZ6JvDC9W9_4nF23MQ6+612_Qe2RS4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:08:46PM -0800, Kyle Moffett wrote:

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> > I understand. I think we will probably use backtick quoting in git-deploy. So
> >
> > deploy.prefix=`cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`
> >
> > will execute cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE and use the results as the value of
> > the config option.
> 
> Alternatively, you could extend the recent proposal for GIT config
> "include" statements so that something like this works:
> 
> [include]
>     exec = echo "deploy.prefix = `cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`"
>     exec = /usr/local/bin/git-config-for-ldap-user
> 
> Thoughts?

I am still undecided on whether the utility of the idea is worth the potential hassle, but syntactically I like that better. It does put a little more burden on the called program to handle things like quoting, though.

-Peff