Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > And, as Johannes already pointed out, it's very disturbing having to > dump a configuration file so that it is more easily read by other > programs. I never pointed out such a thing. The configuration file is meant to be user-friendly, as the inventor did not mean to have a program like git-repo-config. > That would suggest that the ini-based format for git's configuration > file is suboptimal. Not at all. Again, git's configuration file is meant for human inspection. Therefore, an ini-style file is optimal. And for scripts, we do have git-repo-config. But now some people want to be clever and read the whole config file in, to make it easier to have gazillions of configuration options for their script. I was not happy when we introduced more relaxed section titles, and I am not happy now that I see what problems we introduced with that. > Of course, once git is librified (which is still a long-term goal, > right?), [...] You are welcome to contribute to that goal! AFAICT nobody is seriously working on that. Ciao, Dscho - 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