From: demerphq Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:57:14 GMT Subject: Re: General support for ! in git-config values Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7h06109t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On 2 February 2012 02:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > demerphq writes: > >> On 2 February 2012 01:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> demerphq writes: >>> >>>> user.name=!ldap_full_name >>>> user.email=!ldap_email >>> >>> I didn't get the impression that that was what he was proposing, but >>> regardless of who's suggesting it, the above does not make any sense, >>> from the syntax point of view. >> >> Does that mean that from a utility point of view it does? > > Not really. > > I do not think whatever "utility" value outweighs the hassle of having to > think through the ramifications (including but not limited to security) of > running arbitrary user command every time a value is looked up. Why is that your problem? If I have to enable it then isn't that my choice? -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"