Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > While strace'ing builtin-clone I saw this horror: > I think the best solution is to just parse up the entire config file > up front and keep it in a data structure, make the changes and then > write it all out at the end. Yeah, that was what I suggested a few times when other people have done config writing side, but without successfully getting past their skulls (it is not Linus's nor my code). It's about time somebody started to clean up that mess. The timing is a bit unfortunate, though. I would have preferred to have a week or so to cook this in 'next' before merging it part of -rc0. - 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