From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:59:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: display key_delim for config --bool --get-regexp
Message-ID: <7vk48ck1gb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1318251291-30297-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> The previous logic in show_config was to print the delimiter when the
> value was set, but Boolean variables have an implicit value "true" when
> they appear with no value in the config file. As a result, we got:
>
> git_Config        --get-regexp '.*\.Boolean'	#1. Ok: example.boolean
> git_Config --bool --get-regexp '.*\.Boolean'	#2. NO: example.booleantrue
>
> Fix this by defering the display of the separator until after the value
> to display has been computed.
>
> Reported-by: Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> ---

Thanks. Will queue for maintenance track.

> diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
> index 3e140c1..dffccf8 100755
> --- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
> +++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
> @@ -333,6 +333,12 @@ test_expect_success 'get-regexp variable with no value' \
>  	'git config --get-regexp novalue > output &&
>  	 cmp output expect'
>  
> +echo 'novalue.variable true' > expect
> +
> +test_expect_success 'get-regexp --bool variable with no value' \
> +	'git config --bool --get-regexp novalue > output &&
> +	 cmp output expect'
> +
>  echo 'emptyvalue.variable ' > expect
>  
>  test_expect_success 'get-regexp variable with empty value' \

This matches the style of the surrounding code, but we may want to update
this to a more modern style.