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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 0.99.9 on Saturday next week.
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On 25/10/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Since the configuration files use the .ini like syntax, is it OK for
> > > StGIT to use the same file, with an "[stgit]" section?
> >
> > I think that is a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Absolutely. The whole thing was _designed_ to be used that way. Any C user
> should be able to just link against config.o without even bothering with
> the rest of git (the only git-specific thing there should be some naming),
> and any script user can either

I use Python for StGIT and it has support for parsing .ini syntax, no
need to use GIT for this (unless the syntax you chose would diverge
too much).

--
Catalin