Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)
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Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
- Date
- Jan 15, 2007, 15:34 UTC
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On 1/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Would you write "git repo-config --perl", then? ;-)
> > The below patch should be a start (only tested on my fairly standard > > .git/config). A --python option should be easy, too :)
> A bit shorter (and gets the booleans right, plus being even easier > towards --python extension):
If we're going down this slippery slope, why not just give up and add a --xml switch instead? Readable by all and a lot more flexible than --perl, --python, --ruby, --tcl, --sh, --c++, --fortran, --lisp, --html, --that-next-silver-bullet-language-that-hasnt-been-invented-yet-but-will-need-its-own-switch-once-it-has-been.
That said, parsing the config file as-is can't be so difficult that we need to export it to separate files with a different syntax, now can it?
nikolai