Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > + wanted = get_config('remote-bzr.branches').rstrip().split(', ')
>
> Two minor nits and one design suggestion:
>
> - Why rstrip() not strip()?
The purpose of the strip is to remove the _single_ "\n" at the end that
subprocess communicate. Maybe get_config() should do that.
> It appears that this only is helping
> an end-user "mistake" like this:
>
> git config remote-bzr.branches 'trunk, devel, test '
>
> without helping people who have done this:
>
> git config remote-bzr.branches 'trunk, devel, test'
No, that's tnot it.
> - Is
>
> git config remote-bzr.branches trunk,devel,test
>
> a grave sin?
>
> In other words, wouldn't we want something like this instead?
>
> map(lambda s: s.strip(), get_config('...').split(','))
Yeah, that might make sense.
> - Doesn't allowing multi-valued variable, e.g.
>
> [remote-bzr]
> branches = trunk
> branches = devel
> branches = test
>
> make it easier for the user to manage this configuration by
> e.g. selectively removing or adding tracked branches?
How would the 'git config' command look like?
Either way, that's orthogonal to this patch.
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Felipe Contreras
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