Re: [PATCH 9/9] send-email: move trivial config handling to Perl

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2021, 07:04 UTC
Message-ID: <609ccf688a4e7_329320879@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YJxgC/PJ/JIcIOfq@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> It is a bit unfortunate to have to go through these contortions, but
> this is definitely the best we can do for now. I think in the long run
> it would be nice to have a "--stdin" mode for git-config, where we could
> do something like:
> 
>   git config --stdin <<\EOF
>   key=foo.bar
>   type=bool
>   default=false
> 
>   key=another.key
>   type=color
>   default=red
>   EOF

Why do we even have to specify the type? Shouldn't there be a registry of configurations (a schema), so that all users don't have to do this?

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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