Re: [PATCH] Support environment variables in config file

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:57:35PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I actually would like it more if the calling program did the 
> > interpolation itself.
> 
> That's another possibility, perhaps along the line of git_config_int.

Maybe...

> > So, for example if you want a script to access whatever.my.url, and 
> > want to allow to interpolate any environment variable, why not
> > 
> > 	url=$(eval $(git config whatever.my.url))
> 
> Well, complete shell syntax does too much: it also supports $() and 
> friends.

Good point.

> > I am just hesitant to change the existing behaviour, and possibly 
> > introduce weird breakages. (There could even be some unwanted env 
> > leakages in programs like gitweb...)
> 
> exactly.
> 
> So should we simply update semantics of config variables to not require 
> any environment variables?

Well, actually there is a perfect example when you would want to do even 
more than just expanding environment variables: aliases.

I'm happy to understand the config as a relatively versatile key/value 
store, without much in the way of pre- or post-processing from git-config 
or git_config().

But if there are a few callers of git_config() which want environment 
variable interpolation, git_config_expand_envs() would be good.

Ciao,
Dscho