Re: Local unset override global options

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > How does special case of no value, i.e.
>>> >
>>> >    [sendemail]
>>> >         smtpuser
>>>
>>> That is not a special case; that is "boolean true".
>>
>> Well, it is "boolean true" *if* git-config is used with '--bool'.
>>
>> If git-send-email.perl used "git config -l -z" to read all its config
>> variables at once into hash, like gitweb.perl does in the
>> git_parse_project_config() subroutine, it would be able to distinguish
>> between those the case of no value:
>>
>>     [sendemail]
>>          smtpuser
>
> If sendemail is ever re-written in C and use git_config() API, the above
> will become boolean.  Besides, even if you are sticking to sendemail.perl

Actually, I have a very very (very) rudimentary port of send-email in
C. I worked on that mostly for Windows compatibility, but we already
solved the issue for msysGit by supplying msmtp instead, so I haven't
been working at it for quite some time. It's based on an older version
of send-email, and is incomplete in many ways (no alias-support, for
one), but most of the "tricky" parts are done AFAICT (SMTP with SSL if
OpenSSL is available).

Is there any interest in this?

I think in the long run, it'd be beneficial for Git for Windows not to
strictly depend on perl, but I don't really see that happening any
time soon as there's just too many essential tools written in perl.
Send-email is one of them (possibly one of the less essential tools
for most Windows users, though).

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund