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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)
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Dnia wtorek 16. stycznia 2007 23:56, Johannes Schindelin napisa=B3:
>=20
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

>> Well, the idea I had was to have --dump switch to git-repo-config to=
=20
>> dump init file as if it was created by git-repo-config invocations,=20
>> without any hand editing (canonical format).
>=20
> My point still stands: if you already parse the user-friendly format,=
 why=20
> not dump a parse friendly format? If it weren't for those darn non-al=
nums=20
> in the keys, out put of "git repo-config -l" would be perfectly=20
> acceptable.
>=20
> So, how about a "git repo-config --dump" which outputs a stream of NU=
L=20
> separated keys and values? This should be really easy to "parse", and=
=20
> there are no ambiguities: No key or value can contain a NUL.

Good idea, although "\n" would work as well as NUL.

The only problem is with "key without value" case, i.e. something like

  [section]
  	noval

which shows as

  section.noval

in "git repo-config -l" output (note missing '=3D' !), and I guess diff=
ers
for some case from

  [section]
  	noval =3D=20

--=20
Jakub Narebski
Poland