On 26/02/2025 23:36, brian m. carlson wrote:
On 2025-02-26 at 07:38:22, Jeff King wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 11:44:33PM +0000, Yaakov Smith wrote:
Should "git config" be smarter here and print something other than a
literal backspace to the terminal, like "git fetch" does?
So I would say no here, in general.
I agree this is the right choice in general. I wonder if we might want
some sort of human-readable output option that might escape these that
users could use. The output might still be machine-readable, but it
might be easier to parse than the current format, which has some tricky
edge cases when a config value contains newlines.
We have '-z' to avoid that ambiguity. I agree that having an option to
provide a human-readable output would be a nice addition.
Best Wishes
Phillip
We already have precedent for this in core.quotePath and could easily
use similar logic here. That format, while using octal, which I find
ugly and hard to read, does have the pleasant side effect that it works
correctly with POSIX printf(1) (which I'm sure was intentional), unlike
hex escapes.
