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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 21, 2007, 21:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705212252570.6410@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqgddgff.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> 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?
> >
> > IOW, something like 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/36922
> 
> Indeed (perhaps except fixing minor details like not hijacking
> the variable name).  Care to resubmit with docs and tests?

Well, my version was not good, as Eric pointed out.

Do you want me to clean up Eric's version (according to my own comments, that is)?

Ciao, Dscho