Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 00:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706190151160.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <11821227322913-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de>

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

>  Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp
>  and --list use different output format?

AFAIK --list was meant as a replacement to git-var --list. Thus, it had to behave exactly the same.

As for the FIXME: If you have a config like this:

	[core]
		Some = where
		over
		the = core.rainbow

git-config -z would output something like this:

	core.some\0where\0core.over\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0

Right?

As you can see, it is quite hard for a parser to find out what is key, and what is value. That FIXME is _exactly_ about this dilemma.

IIRC I stated once that -z should output a value of "true" for these cases, since they only make sense as booleans. But AFAIR nothing conclusive came out of that thread.

Ciao, Dscho