Re: General support for ! in git-config values

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:44:05AM +0100, demerphq wrote:

The general design of git seems to me to be based around providing
building blocks that people can use to build new and interesting tools
on top of, and so it seems counter to that philosophy to reject an
feature based on speculative security issues that really can't be
decided in advance but must instead be decided on a case by case
basis.

I can't speak for Junio, but I am certainly not rejecting it. Only
saying that it needs to be thought through, and the utility weighed
against the costs. So far I haven't seen an actual patch to comment on
(or even a proposed syntax beyond starting a string with "!", which I
think is a non-starter due to conflicting with existing uses), nor have
I seen a concrete use case (you mentioned pulling the name/email from
ldap, but you also mentioned that there are lots of other ways of
solving that particular problem, so it's not especially compelling).

I'd be happy to hear a more concrete proposal.

-Peff