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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:55:24 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

>  Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp
>  and --list use different output format?

AFAIK --list was meant as a replacement to git-var --list. Thus, it had to 
behave exactly the same.

As for the FIXME: If you have a config like this:

	[core]
		Some = where
		over
		the = core.rainbow

git-config -z would output something like this:

	core.some\0where\0core.over\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0

Right?

As you can see, it is quite hard for a parser to find out what is key, and 
what is value. That FIXME is _exactly_ about this dilemma.

IIRC I stated once that -z should output a value of "true" for these 
cases, since they only make sense as booleans. But AFAIR nothing 
conclusive came out of that thread.

Ciao,
Dscho