From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:34:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)
Message-ID: <dbfc82860701150734j7322de15v30dc6822b456ea66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701151313050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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