On Sun, 7 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The downside is that if you start using config files like this, you
> literally can't go back to older git versions. They'll refuse to touch
> such a config file (rather than just ignoring the new entries) and will
> exit with nasty messages. That might be unacceptable.
Side note: with this syntax, the _users_ will all just basically do
if (!strncmp(name, "branch.", 7)) {
branch = name + 7;
dot = strchr(branch, '.');
if (!dot)
return -1;
*dot++ = 0;
.. we now have the branchname in "branc",
and the rest in "dot" ..
and if your branch names are purely alphabetical and lower-case, you can
now write
[branch.origin]
remote = true
url = git://git.kernel.org/...
fetch = master
[branch.master]
pull = origin
and it will be parsed _exactly_ the same as
["origin"]
remote = true
url = git://git.kernel.org/...
fetch = master
["master"]
pull = origin
while the [branch.origin] syntax allows old versions of git to happily
ignore it. So that would be a kind of cheesy work-around: the new
double-quoted format is only _required_ for any branch-names that have
special characters in it.
Linus
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