Re: [PATCH 0/2] config includes, take 2

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > 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?

Yeah, the output above is just illustrative. Without -z, I would do
quoted filename, TAB, and then $KEY=$VALUE (I didn't check whether we
quote an "=" in the subsection of a key, but we probably should).

-Peff