Re: StGIT and repo-config

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 25/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to get StGIT to work with git's config information.
> Currently, the stgit.config stuff uses a generic ConfigParser, which
> I'm not sure is adequate for the work:

There are some drawbacks indeed and it currently reads the configs and
transforms them slightly before passing them to ConfigParser. StGIT
initially had its own config files (git config came a bit later).

It would be good to have this re-written. It is even better to use
something like config.get('user.name') rather than config.get('user',
'name') as in ConfigParser.

What I'd like it to have is a single initial call to git-repo-config
--list (in config_setup) and all the options cached in a dictionary
(so that .git/config options would override the global ~/.gitconfig
ones). The dictionary should also be pre-populated with the default
values (only in memory, not going to the config file on disk).

For the options setting, it shouldn't probably need to use --global.
As above, these options should be cached in the dictionary as well.

-- 
Catalin