As of this commit, the canonical way to retreive an ANSI-compatible
color escape sequence from a configuration file is with the
`--get-color` action.
This is to allow Git to "fall back" on a default value for the color
should the given section not exist in the specified configuration(s).
With the addition of `--default`, this is no longer needed since:
$ git config --default red --type=color core.section
will be have exactly as:
$ git config --get-color core.section red
For consistency, let's introduce `--color` and encourage `--type=color`,
`--default` together over `--get-color` alone.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-config.txt | 10 ++++++----
builtin/config.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
t/t1300-repo-config.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 620492d1e..bde702d2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -38,10 +38,8 @@ existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If
you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the regex, just
prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <<EXAMPLES>>).
-A type specifier may be given as an argument to `--type` to make 'git config'
-ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and convert the value to the
-canonical form. If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are
-performed on the value.
+`color`::
+ The value is taken as an ANSI color escape sequence.
When reading, the values are read from the system, global and
repository local configuration files by default, and options
@@ -177,6 +175,7 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
~/` from the command line to let your shell do the expansion.)
- 'expiry-date': canonicalize by converting from a fixed or relative date-string
to a timestamp. This specifier has no effect when setting the value.
+- 'color': canonicalize by converting to an ANSI color escape sequence.
+
--bool::
@@ -223,6 +222,9 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard
output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if
there is no color configured for `name`.
++
+It is preferred to use `--type=color`, or `--type=color --default=[default]`
+instead of `--get-color`.
-e::
--edit::
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index 1328b568b..aa3fcabe9 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static int show_origin;
#define TYPE_BOOL_OR_INT 3
#define TYPE_PATH 4
#define TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE 5
+#define TYPE_COLOR 6
static int option_parse_type(const struct option *opt, const char *arg,
int unset)
@@ -82,6 +83,8 @@ static int option_parse_type(const struct option *opt, const char *arg,
*type = TYPE_PATH;
else if (!strcmp(arg, "expiry-date"))
*type = TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE;
+ else if (!strcmp(arg, "color"))
+ *type = TYPE_COLOR;
else {
die(_("unrecognized --type argument, %s"), arg);
return 1;
@@ -203,6 +206,11 @@ static int format_config(struct strbuf *buf, const char *key_, const char *value
if (git_config_expiry_date(&t, key_, value_) < 0)
return -1;
strbuf_addf(buf, "%"PRItime, t);
+ } else if (type == TYPE_COLOR) {
+ char v[COLOR_MAXLEN];
+ if (git_config_color(v, key_, value_) < 0)
+ return -1;
+ strbuf_addstr(buf, v);
} else if (value_) {
strbuf_addstr(buf, value_);
} else {
@@ -348,6 +356,19 @@ static char *normalize_value(const char *key, const char *value)
else
return xstrdup(v ? "true" : "false");
}
+ if (type == TYPE_COLOR) {
+ char v[COLOR_MAXLEN];
+ if (!git_config_color(v, key, value))
+ /*
+ * The contents of `v` now contain an ANSI escape
+ * sequence, not suitable for including within a
+ * configuration file. Treat the above as a
+ * "sanity-check", and return the given value, which we
+ * know is representable as valid color code.
+ */
+ return xstrdup(value);
+ die("cannot parse color '%s'", value);
+ }
die("BUG: cannot normalize type %d", type);
}
diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
index b25ab7b9e..c630bdc77 100755
--- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
@@ -931,6 +931,36 @@ test_expect_success 'get --expiry-date' '
test_must_fail git config --expiry-date date.invalid1
'
+test_expect_success 'get --type=color' '
+ rm .git/config &&
+ git config foo.color "red" &&
+ git config --get --type=color foo.color >actual.raw &&
+ test_decode_color <actual.raw >actual &&
+ echo "<RED>" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+cat >expect << EOF
+[foo]
+ color = red
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'set --type=color' '
+ rm .git/config &&
+ git config --type=color foo.color "red" &&
+ test_cmp expect .git/config
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'get --type=color barfs on non-color' '
+ echo "[foo]bar=not-a-color" >.git/config &&
+ test_must_fail git config --get --type=color foo.bar
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'set --type=color barfs on non-color' '
+ test_must_fail git config --type=color foo.color "not-a-color" 2>error &&
+ test_i18ngrep "cannot parse color" error
+'
+
cat > expect << EOF
[quote]
leading = " test"
--
2.17.0
