Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > >> I need this in order to allow aliases of the same form as "ls-tree", >> "rev-parse" etc, so that I can use >> >> [alias] >> my-cat=--paginate cat-file -p >> >> to add a "git my-cat" command. > > I do not have problem with this (and would perhaps also want to > add '_' to keychar set), but people who envisioned parsing > config from scripts (i.e. Perly git) might prefer if we stayed > within alnum, since I'd suspect then they may be able to reuse > existing .ini parsers. I do not much care about that myself, > but I am bringing it up just in case other people might. > > Other than that, this sounds nice. One thing I forgot to add. Just like we downcase what user has written in config file, it might make sense to also remove '-' (and if we add '_' to keychar set, that one as well) to when canonicalizing the key value. That way, somewhat awkward long configuration variables we currently have can be written more readably, e.g. repack.use-delta-base-offset Likes, dislikes? It is not strictly needed, since we can do CamelCase as well in the configuration file. > By the way, everybody seems to do "alias.xxx = -p cat-file -p" > (I have it as "git less"). Maybe we would want to make a > built-in alias for that? Seconds? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Oct 31 14:02:35 2006
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