Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rebase -i: use config file format to save author information

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

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Why is this a good change?

It was always using a temporary file; it just used to use a temporary file 
that was a shell script fragment and needed to be read with "eval". It 
can't be done entirely in core because it may be determined before a 
conflict and only used when run with --continue after the user resolves 
the conflict.

Ahh, Ok.

Using a _known_ and defined format, instead of ad-hoc scriptlet, is an
improvement.

I still wonder if we can avoid using three separate "git show" and "git
config" invocations, though.  But a half of that inefficiency will go away
when this is migrated to C, as a single git_config() will grab all three, 
although the writing side is still very inefficient X-<.