Re: [PATCH] config: Add --quoted option to produce machine-parsable output

> Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:
> 
> > This option will enclose key names in quotes (") if they
> > contain a subsection and then escape " and \. It will also
> > escape line breaks in values. Together this should produce
> > an easily parsable output.
> >
> > Affects --list and --get-*
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
> > ---
> >  builtin-config.c |   92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > Will add asciidoc documentation and test cases if people think that 
> > this is a good idea.
> >
> > I'm writing C about once a year, so I really don't mind being told if 
> > it's crap ;)
> 
> We probably would want to make this compatible with the quoting rules 
> various fo "host" language have.  quote.c has host language support to 
> implement {perl,python,tcl}_quote_print() for single string values or 
> keys, so we should extend that idea.
> 
> In your application, what you are trying to do is to show a "hash" (key 
> => value) in a notation that is friendly to the host language.
> 
> Git.pm could simply do:
> 
> 	my $eval = `git config --perl --get-regexp 'gitcvs\..*'`;
> 	my $cfg = eval "$eval";
> 
> if you code your "perl" notation to produce:
> 
> 	+{
> 		'gitcvs.ext.enabled' => 'false',
>                 'gitcvs.logfile' => '/var/log/gitcvs.log',
> 	}
> 
> in order to read things in.
> 
> Hmm?