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Re: [GSOC] Git Configuration API improvements

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karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
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Mar 11, 2014, 16:19 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Currently we have multiple invocation of git_config() in an
>> individual invocation of git() which is not efficient. Also, it is
>> hard to implement new features,
>
> I think efficiency is not a real concern here. Config files are small
> and easy to parse, so parsing them multiple times isn't really
> noticeable from the performance point of view.
>
> OTOH, the extensibility is a real concern, and that should be the main
> motivation for the project.
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
Hello Matthieu,

Thanks. I understand what you mean. extensibility is the main motivation of the project, i think that by implementing the cache system we can fix the small problems (reappearing of headers while setting and unsetting configs) and also implement new features like to unset a config easily.

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