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Re: [Janitors] value could be NULL in config parser

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 06:04 UTC
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
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> Le samedi 9 février 2008, Govind Salinas a écrit :
>
>> Question.  Wouldn't it reduce the amount of validation we have to do
>> if whoever is calling back checked null and assigned an empty string?
>> If so, we can probably replace all these patches with one patch.
>
> This was discussed in this thread:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72107/
>
> In short we can't do that now, but it may be possible latter, if we first 
> deprecate using an empty string as boolean value "false" (while a NULL is 
> boolean value "true").

It may be the case that many in-tree config parser functions are sloppy right now. It however is never an excuse to break user's existing repositories.

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Message 12 of 15 in “[Janitors] value could be NULL in config parser”
  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2008
  2. archive-tar.c: guard config parser from value=NULLMiklos Vajna, Feb 8, 2008
  3. builtin-gc.c: guard config parser from value=NULLMiklos Vajna, Feb 8, 2008
  4. remote.c: guard config parser from value=NULLMiklos Vajna, Feb 8, 2008
  5. Michele BallabioFeb 8, 2008
  6. setup.c: guard config parser from value=NULLMiklos Vajna, Feb 8, 2008
  7. Michele BallabioFeb 8, 2008
  8. Miklos VajnaFeb 8, 2008
  9. Govind SalinasFeb 8, 2008
  10. Govind SalinasFeb 9, 2008
  11. Christian CouderFeb 9, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2008
  13. Christian CouderFeb 9, 2008
  14. Christian CouderFeb 9, 2008
  15. Govind SalinasFeb 9, 2008

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