Re: StGIT and repo-config

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 23:45 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0701251545w1b34a0dcg545eeab08d767e38@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070125225512.GF4083@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

On 25/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to get StGIT to work with git's config information.
> Currently, the stgit.config stuff uses a generic ConfigParser, which
> I'm not sure is adequate for the work:

There are some drawbacks indeed and it currently reads the configs and transforms them slightly before passing them to ConfigParser. StGIT initially had its own config files (git config came a bit later).

It would be good to have this re-written. It is even better to use something like config.get('user.name') rather than config.get('user', 'name') as in ConfigParser.

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).

For the options setting, it shouldn't probably need to use --global. As above, these options should be cached in the dictionary as well.

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Catalin