From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:18:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] builtin/config: canonicalize "value_regex" with `--type=bool[-or-int]`
Message-ID: <xmqqeeyb9p4i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1573670565.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

>   git config --type=bool --name-only --get-regexp '^foo\.' true
> ...
> This patch series teaches `git config` to canonicalize the incoming
> "value_regex" ("true" in the example above), then canonicalize candidate
> values as we go through the config. Or if you will, `git config` learns
> a brand new type of regex, corresponding to the different ways there are
> of spelling "true" and "false", respectively.

Nice ;-)

> `--type=bool-or-int` gets the same treatment, except we need to to be
> able to handle the ints and regexes matching particular ints that we
> must expect.

Hmm, so I can say 1024k or 1m and that would match 1048576?  

Doubly nice.

Looking forward to reading it thru.