From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:10:48 GMT
Subject: Re: batch-command wishlist [was: [TOPIC 02/12] Libification Goals and Progress]
Message-ID: <20231003201048.GD1562@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20231003005251.M353509@dcvr>

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:52:51AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> Not sure if cat-file is the place for it, but a persistent
> process to deal with:
> 
> * `git config -f FILENAME ...' (especially --get-urlmatch --type=FOO)
> * approxidate parsing for other tools[2]
>
> [2] I did recently license the code of a standalone C++ executable
>     as GPL-2+ so I can copy approxidate parsing from git and
>     perhaps figure out enough C++ to use Xapian query parser
>     bindings instead of the hacky `git rev-parse --since=' thing
>     I do.

I know that you asked for a persistent process, but just for reference,
you can hackily access approxidate with:

  git config --type=expiry-date --default='15 days ago' does.not.exist

-Peff