Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rebase -i: use config file format to save author information

> On Sun, 21 June 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>> 
>>>> Why is this a good change?
>>>
>>> It was always using a temporary file; it just used to use a temporary file 
>>> that was a shell script fragment and needed to be read with "eval". It 
>>> can't be done entirely in core because it may be determined before a 
>>> conflict and only used when run with --continue after the user resolves 
>>> the conflict.
>> 
>> Ahh, Ok.
>> 
>> Using a _known_ and defined format, instead of ad-hoc scriptlet, is an
>> improvement.
>> 
>> I still wonder if we can avoid using three separate "git show" and "git
>> config" invocations, though.  But a half of that inefficiency will go away
>> when this is migrated to C, as a single git_config() will grab all three, 
>> although the writing side is still very inefficient X-<.
>
> I think we can on the reading side: just use "git config --list", or
> perhaps "git config --get-regexp <sth>" (where <sth> can be ".*") which
> conveniently has SPC as separator, and feed it to appropriate 3 x 'read'.
>
> On the writing side we can simply write in the config file format, we
> don't need to use git-config for that.  Although I wonder if there won't
> be trouble with shell escaping and quoting rules (eval / sed, which
> I guess does shell quoting / shell unquoting).
>
> On getting the information side we can use git-show with custom format
> or git-cat-file fed to while-read-case construct.
>
> This way from 3 x 3 = 9 git commands git-rebase--interactive.sh would
> use only 2.