Re: General support for ! in git-config values

From: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
Date: Feb 3, 2012, 05:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ=bq++R+X+2r2_zQ4UZ6JvDC9W9_4nF23MQ6+612_Qe2RS4Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANgJU+XoZd6x6jdSHszigZaPgi+6H3Nbf4OG7p0y1_=7m+qntA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 02:21, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> So far I haven't seen an actual patch to comment on
>> (or even a proposed syntax beyond starting a string with "!", which I
>> think is a non-starter due to conflicting with existing uses),
>
> I understand. I think we will probably use backtick quoting in git-deploy. So
>
> deploy.prefix=`cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`
>
> will execute cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE and use the results as the value of
> the config option.

Alternatively, you could extend the recent proposal for GIT config "include" statements so that something like this works:

[include]
    exec = echo "deploy.prefix = `cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`"
    exec = /usr/local/bin/git-config-for-ldap-user

Thoughts?

Cheers, Kyle Moffett