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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/3] cvsimport: fix the parsing of uppercase config options
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:34:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101201163406.GD26120@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3aakp4g5o.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

(+cc: Jeff, config parsing wizard)

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> I somewhat like this idea.  So let's build a full table, shall
>> we?  The embedded dashes are meant for the command-line options
>> rather than the config file.
[...]
> Good idea, though I'd rather we avoid new convention for multi word
> names separated with '-' (multi-word), but rather use camel case
> (multiWord).

No disagreement there. :)

> Currently we have only unfortunate exception of `add.ignore-errors',

Maybe we can teach the config file parser to ignore dashes in addition
to case (except in the names of [genus "species"] headings)?  That
would be an incompatible change for third-party tools, though, so
maybe "git config" would have to take an explicit --strip-dashes
flag to do it.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-25 15:10 [PATCH 1/3] cvsimport: partial whitespace cleanup Michael J Gruber
2010-11-25 15:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] cvsimport: fix the parsing of uppercase config options Michael J Gruber
2010-11-27  6:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-28 19:30     ` Michael J Gruber
2010-11-28 19:39       ` [PATCHv2 1/3] cvsimport: partial whitespace cleanup Michael J Gruber
2010-11-28 19:39         ` [PATCHv2 2/3] cvsimport: fix the parsing of uppercase config options Michael J Gruber
2010-11-28 19:39         ` [PATCHv2 3/3] cvsimport.txt: document the mapping between config and options Michael J Gruber
2010-11-29 20:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-30  7:56             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01  1:43               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 12:53                 ` [PATCHv3 0/3] uppercase config options for cvsimport Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 12:53                   ` [PATCHv3 1/3] cvsimport: partial whitespace cleanup Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 12:53                   ` [PATCHv3 2/3] cvsimport: fix the parsing of uppercase config options Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 14:59                     ` Martin Langhoff
2010-12-01 16:05                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-01 16:18                         ` Martin Langhoff
2010-12-01 16:23                         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-01 16:34                           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-01 16:52                             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 17:01                               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-01 17:58                               ` Jeff King
2010-12-01 19:47                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 21:46                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 17:55                             ` Jeff King
2010-12-01 18:36                               ` [PATCH] add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-01 18:46                                 ` Jeff King
2010-12-01 18:57                                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-01 19:56                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 20:09                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 21:07                                       ` Jeff King
2010-12-03  2:18                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 12:53                   ` [PATCHv3 3/3] cvsimport.txt: document the mapping between config and options Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 15:02                 ` [PATCHv2 " Martin Langhoff
2010-12-01 15:34                   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-11-25 15:10 ` [PATCH " Michael J Gruber
2010-11-27  6:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] cvsimport: partial whitespace cleanup Junio C Hamano

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