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Re: 0.99.9 on Saturday next week.

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CMCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 26, 2005, 11:50 UTC
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On 25/10/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Since the configuration files use the .ini like syntax, is it OK for
> > > StGIT to use the same file, with an "[stgit]" section?
> >
> > I think that is a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Absolutely. The whole thing was _designed_ to be used that way. Any C user
> should be able to just link against config.o without even bothering with
> the rest of git (the only git-specific thing there should be some naming),
> and any script user can either

I use Python for StGIT and it has support for parsing .ini syntax, no need to use GIT for this (unless the syntax you chose would diverge too much).

-- Catalin

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Message 6 of 7 in “0.99.9 on Saturday next week.”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinOct 22, 2005
  3. Catalin MarinasOct 25, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsOct 25, 2005
  6. Catalin MarinasOct 26, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 26, 2005

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