Re: [PATCH] config: add support for --bool and --int while setting values

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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:06:34PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Please excuse if I'm missing the big picture, but why do we need this
>> change?
>
> - Of course the user or script calling git-config can do the
>   normalization and error checking, if they want to. But I would
>   prefer to have it available in git-config.
> - I would prefer that these options wouldn't be silently ignored,
>   because that can be confusing (at least it is documented now, but
>   still). So we should either using them or error out. I prefer the former.
>
> Something that I forgot to mention in the previous mail:
> One real problem with the patch is that it expands the k,m,g suffixes
> for integer values. It probably shouldn't do that.

How about doing something like this, then?

git_config_int() knows that a missing value is a nonsense and
barfs on such an input, so (value ? value : "") is redundant
here.  Besides, you check value == NULL much earlier in this
function.


diff --git a/builtin-config.c b/builtin-config.c
index 9973f94..33b60ec 100644
--- a/builtin-config.c
+++ b/builtin-config.c
@@ -148,10 +148,11 @@ char* normalize_value(const char* key, const char* value)
 	if (type == T_RAW)
 		normalized = xstrdup(value);
 	else {
-		normalized = xmalloc(64);
-		if (type == T_INT)
-			sprintf(normalized, "%d",
-				git_config_int(key, value?value:""));
+		normalized = xmalloc(64 + strlen(value));
+		if (type == T_INT) {
+			int v = git_config_int(key, value);
+			sprintf(normalized, "%d # %s", v, value);
+		}
 		else if (type == T_BOOL)
 			sprintf(normalized, "%s",
 				git_config_bool(key, value) ? "true" : "false");

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