From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add --quoted option to produce machine-parsable output Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:46:54 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20070520225953.GK4085@planck.djpig.de> <11797696193384-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> <7vejladpfr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Frank Lichtenheld , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 21 20:47:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqCv2-0002WB-Ba for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755163AbXEUSrh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755627AbXEUSrh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:37 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42305 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755163AbXEUSrg (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:36 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 May 2007 18:47:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 21 May 2007 20:47:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/p3eodEjvp7QNLgNaUqEMq4ewGC3U4saEKiRZVhu sTITPTklsTqzPk X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <7vejladpfr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld 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 > > --- > > 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? IOW, something like http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/36922 Hmm? Ciao, Dscho