Re: General support for ! in git-config values

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:08:46PM -0800, Kyle Moffett wrote:

quoted

I understand. I think we will probably use backtick quoting in git-deploy. So

deploy.prefix=`cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`

will execute cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE and use the results as the value of
the config option.

Alternatively, you could extend the recent proposal for GIT config
"include" statements so that something like this works:

[include]
    exec = echo "deploy.prefix = `cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`"
    exec = /usr/local/bin/git-config-for-ldap-user

Thoughts?

I am still undecided on whether the utility of the idea is worth the
potential hassle, but syntactically I like that better. It does put a
little more burden on the called program to handle things like quoting,
though.

-Peff