From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi•se>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
"Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox•net>,
"Eric Wong" <normalperson@yhbt•net>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:37:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701162337.32759.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860701161417r650bc47fva92fa940b4e2cfc0@mail.gmail.com>
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 1/16/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> wrote:
>> But I agree that XML is serious overkill...
>
> I don't know if it was clear from my first mail, but I wasn't
> suggesting --xml as a serious alternative. My point was that if we're
> going to go through all the fuss of adding all these switches for
> outputting the configuration file in some fixed format, why not go
> with one that at least is universal in some sense (not necessarily
> XML). And, as Johannes already pointed out, it's very disturbing
> having to dump a configuration file so that it is more easily read by
> other programs. That would suggest that the ini-based format for
> git's configuration file is suboptimal.
No, ini-based, or rather ini-like format for git configuration
is nice, but I think git is too forgiving in accepting input.
Examples: section header and key/value pair in the same line,
allowing multiple quotes in in value part.
Well, the idea I had was to have --dump switch to git-repo-config
to dump init file as if it was created by git-repo-config invocations,
without any hand editing (canonical format).
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-15 0:44 [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP) Jakub Narebski
2007-01-15 7:08 ` Eric Wong
2007-01-15 9:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-15 9:56 ` Eric Wong
2007-01-15 10:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-15 10:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-15 11:26 ` Eric Wong
2007-01-15 12:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-15 15:34 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-15 15:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-15 16:22 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-15 16:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-16 10:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-16 11:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 14:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-16 22:17 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-16 22:37 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-16 22:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 23:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-17 8:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 9:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-17 10:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 12:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-17 12:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 14:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-19 12:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-19 12:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-19 13:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-19 22:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-20 0:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 0:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-20 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 1:25 ` [PATCH] config_set_multivar(): disallow newlines in keys Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 1:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22 15:06 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-22 15:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-22 15:33 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-22 15:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-22 16:09 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-23 11:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 12:47 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-20 14:03 ` [PATCH] Documentation/config.txt: Document config file syntax better Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22 15:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-24 14:14 ` [PATCH 2/1] Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection name Jakub Narebski
2007-01-16 22:42 ` [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP) Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 18:08 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-17 19:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-17 20:01 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-17 19:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-18 0:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 19:09 ` Eric Wong
2007-01-16 9:51 ` Eric Wong
2007-01-16 10:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 19:53 ` Eric Wong
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