On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:08:46PM -0800, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > I understand. I think we will probably use backtick quoting in git-deploy. So > > > > deploy.prefix=`cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE` > > > > will execute cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE and use the results as the value of > > the config option. > > Alternatively, you could extend the recent proposal for GIT config > "include" statements so that something like this works: > > [include] > exec = echo "deploy.prefix = `cat /etc/SERVER_ROLE`" > exec = /usr/local/bin/git-config-for-ldap-user > > Thoughts? I am still undecided on whether the utility of the idea is worth the potential hassle, but syntactically I like that better. It does put a little more burden on the called program to handle things like quoting, though. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html