Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 16, 2007, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701162337330.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860701161417r650bc47fva92fa940b4e2cfc0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> And, as Johannes already pointed out, it's very disturbing having to 
> dump a configuration file so that it is more easily read by other 
> programs.

I never pointed out such a thing. The configuration file is meant to be user-friendly, as the inventor did not mean to have a program like git-repo-config.

> That would suggest that the ini-based format for git's configuration 
> file is suboptimal.

Not at all. Again, git's configuration file is meant for human inspection. Therefore, an ini-style file is optimal.

And for scripts, we do have git-repo-config. But now some people want to be clever and read the whole config file in, to make it easier to have gazillions of configuration options for their script.

I was not happy when we introduced more relaxed section titles, and I am not happy now that I see what problems we introduced with that.

> Of course, once git is librified (which is still a long-term goal,
> right?), [...]

You are welcome to contribute to that goal! AFAICT nobody is seriously working on that.

Ciao, Dscho