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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] config includes, take 2
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:16:47 -0800 (PST)
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

[...]
> Git-config could potentially help with that (and even simplify the
> current code) by allowing something like:
> 
>   $ git config --list-with-sources
>   /home/peff/.gitconfig user.name=Jeff King
>   /home/peff/.gitconfig user.email=peff@peff.net
>   .git/config core.repositoryformatversion=0
>   .git/config core.bare=false
>   [etc]
> 
> (you would use the "-z" form, of course, and the filenames would be
> NUL-separated, but I made up a human-readable output format above for
> illustration purposes).

That would be _very_ nice to have (even without includes support).

Filenames would be git-quoted like in ls-tree / diff-tree output without -z,
isn't it?  And is that TAB or SPC as a separator?
-- 
Jakub Narebski