[PATCH] Add support reading default options from conf file
From: Jonas Fonseca <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:59
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [ref] Dan Holmsand [off-list ref] wrote Wed, Jun 08, 2005:
- Automatic color if the COGITO_AUTO_COLOR environment variable is set.
[ This has been discussed before. Default arguments. The 'new' cg wrapper makes this very easy. Not as smart as your env variable handling tho'. ] The default options are read only for Cogito calls going through the new cg wrapper which makes it trivial to 'overwrite' them by just calling cg-COMMAMD. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <redacted> --- Documentation/make-cogito-asciidoc | 12 ++++++++++++ cg | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/make-cogito-asciidoc b/Documentation/make-cogito-asciidoc
--- a/Documentation/make-cogito-asciidoc
+++ b/Documentation/make-cogito-asciidoc@@ -140,6 +140,18 @@ FILE:: Indicates an already existing filename - always relative to the root of the repository. +FILES +----- +~/.cogito.conf:: + This file is read when running the \`cg\` wrapper program and + contains information about default options. Each line consists + of a command name and a list of options. Empty lines and lines + starting with '#' are ignored. To always have \`cg log\` and + \`cg diff\` output colored put the following in ~/.cogito.conf: + + log -c + diff -c + COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (C) Petr Baudis, 2005.
diff --git a/cg b/cg
--- a/cg
+++ b/cg@@ -3,5 +3,9 @@ cmd="$1"; shift [ x"$cmd" = x"--help" ] && cmd="help" +if [ -e "$HOME/.cogito.conf" ]; then + defaults="$(grep "^$cmd" "$HOME/.cogito.conf" | sed "s/^$cmd //")" +fi + exe="cg-$cmd" -exec $exe "$@" +exec $exe "$defaults" "$@"
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Jonas Fonseca