Re: StGIT and repo-config

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701260052590.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0701251545w1b34a0dcg545eeab08d767e38@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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> What I'd like it to have is a single initial call to git-repo-config 
> --list (in config_setup) and all the options cached in a dictionary (so 
> that .git/config options would override the global ~/.gitconfig ones). 
> The dictionary should also be pre-populated with the default values 
> (only in memory, not going to the config file on disk).

There was another thread, a few days ago, where Jakub proposed an alternative config parser in Perl. Eric Wong even wrote a rather large patch to automatically generate _source_ code for Perl, Python and Ruby.

I then proposed to have a simple --dump option to repo-config, which outputs NUL separated key/value pairs (substituting "true" for keys without -- not with empty! -- values). But somehow the discussion petered out before anything came out of it.

The most important point (to me) which came out of the discussion: It is not at all easy, or straight-forward, to handle multi-vars, i.e. multiple values for the same key.

Ciao, Dscho