From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:44:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
Message-ID: <xmqqeekr43sr.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201118005014.GC389879@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I don't personally love shell quoting as an interchange mechanism; I'd
> prefer something like URI-encoding, which is a bit more standardized and
> easier to reason about from a security perspective.  But if we decide to
> change it, it doesn't matter, since it's still undocumented and this
> would be the only acceptable way to pass config through the environment.

Surely.  

I am kind-of surprised that nobody has brought up json or yaml ;-)