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

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

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

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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 :)

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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 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?

Parsing the config file is not _that_ difficult (the first post in this 
thread had config reader in Perl), but it is not that easy: case 
(in)setiviness, quoting, escaping, comments, removing leading and 
trailing whitespace when not quoted...

P.S. I'd rather have an additional implementation (in Perl) conforming 
to yet to be written git ini-like config file specs, to find places 
where canonic parser, git-repo-config, doesn't conform to the specs.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland