From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:54:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] completion: fix alias listings with newlines
Message-ID: <4ACD9ABC.4070809@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ACD961D.9080401@gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd schrieb:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> Or a format string with a language based escape like for-each-ref
>> supports?  Might make it easier to use git config in scripts if we
>> can write things like:
>>
>>   git config --format='$data{%(key)}=%(value);' --perl
> 
> This sounds reasonable, but also like more work ;-)

OTOH, you can simply revert the hunk from 518ef8f (completion: Replace
config --list with --get-regexp, 2009-09-11) that applies here, or even
only reinstate the case statement in the loop body without changing
anything else.

-- Hannes