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Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add --quoted option to produce machine-parsable output
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> writes:

> This option will enclose key names in quotes (") if they
> contain a subsection and then escape " and \. It will also
> escape line breaks in values. Together this should produce
> an easily parsable output.
>
> Affects --list and --get-*
>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
> ---
>  builtin-config.c |   92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>  Will add asciidoc documentation and test cases if people think that this is
>  a good idea.
>
>  I'm writing C about once a year, so I really don't mind being told if it's
>  crap ;)

We probably would want to make this compatible with the quoting
rules various fo "host" language have.  quote.c has host
language support to implement {perl,python,tcl}_quote_print()
for single string values or keys, so we should extend that idea.

In your application, what you are trying to do is to show a
"hash" (key => value) in a notation that is friendly to the host
language.

Git.pm could simply do:

	my $eval = `git config --perl --get-regexp 'gitcvs\..*'`;
	my $cfg = eval "$eval";

if you code your "perl" notation to produce:

	+{
		'gitcvs.ext.enabled' => 'false',
                'gitcvs.logfile' => '/var/log/gitcvs.log',
	}

in order to read things in.

Hmm?