Re: Add ".git/config" file parser

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2005, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <434AE209.60605@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510101446180.14597@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>	; core variables
>>	[core]
>>		; Don't trust file modes
>>		filemode = false
>>
>>	; Our diff algorithm 
>>	[diff]
>>		external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u"
>>		renames = true
>>
>>which parses into two variables: "core.filemode" is associated with the 
>>string "false", and "diff.external" gets the appropriate quoted value.
>  
> _Three_ variables. Duh. I added the "renames" thing later, as I was 
> looking at what kinds of default flags the "git-diff-xyz" family might be 
> interested in having.
>

A suggestion: if you make your basic types (integer, string, boolean) recognizable by the parser, you can present them in that way. This pretty much means strings will have to always be double-quoted, but that avoids a bunch of ambiguities.

	-hpa