Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 8, 2006, 09:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vody8howu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1147053329.17371.52.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

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> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 03:27 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > Now, how can I get a description for the "netdev" branch by one
>> > git-repo-config command, without pipes?
>> 
>> 	git-repo-config --get branchdata.description ' for netdev$'
>
> No, it doesn't remove "for netdev".  What I really don't like is that
> git-repo-config treats it as "not my problem".

Stating what you do not like about something is a good first step to improve that something. It should not be too hard to extend the parser to grok:

	repo-config --get branchdata.description '\(.*\) for netdev$'

and when the value_regex has a capture return what matches instead of the entire value. I think that would do what you want.