On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:22 PM, John Chapman <thestar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +_gitConfig = {} > def gitConfig(key): > - return read_pipe("git config %s" % key, ignore_error=True).strip() > + if not _gitConfig.has_key(key): > + _gitConfig[key] = read_pipe("git config %s" % key, ignore_error=True).strip() > + return _gitConfig[key] If this is truly a noticeable bottleneck on Windows, something like the following might be even better: (completely untested!) _gitConfig = None def gitConfig(key): if _gitConfig is None: lines = read_pipe("git config -l", ignore_error=True).readlines(): _gitConfig = dict([l.strip().split('=', 1) for l in lines]) return _gitConfig.get(key, None) Dave. -- 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