Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

On 1/15/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

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Would you write "git repo-config --perl", then? ;-)

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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