Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

As for the FIXME: [...]

Please read original message carefully:

quoted

 Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp
 and --list use different output format?

I think the FIXME is for --get-regexp. And was added by the patch.

If you have a config like this: 

        [core]
                Some = where
                over
                the = core.rainbow

git-config -z would output something like this:

        core.some\0where\0core.over\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0

Right?

False. Delim is different from term. You would get

	core.some\nwhere\0core.over\0core.the\ncore.rainbow\0

As you can see, it is quite hard for a parser to find out what is
key, and what is value.

	local $/ = "\0";

	while (my $line = <$fd>) {
		chomp $line;
		my ($key, $value) = split(/\n/, $line, 2);

		push @{$config{$key}}, $value if defined $key;
	}

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland