Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

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Hi,

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> On 1/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > > > Would you write "git repo-config --perl", then? ;-)
> 
> > > The below patch should be a start (only tested on my fairly standard
> > > .git/config).  A --python option should be easy, too :)
> 
> > A bit shorter (and gets the booleans right, plus being even easier
> > towards --python extension):
> 
> If we're going down this slippery slope, why not just give up and add
> a --xml switch instead?

AFAIR this switch was meant to _enhance_ performance.

> That said, parsing the config file as-is can't be so difficult that we 
> need to export it to separate files with a different syntax, now can it?

The point is having one parser to rule them all, and avoid having 
different parsers, all with their own set of shortcomings.

Ciao,
Dscho

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