From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Dan Zwell <dzwell@zwell.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Added config_default($key, $default) to Git.pm
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:14:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122121402.GF12913@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071122045552.30ca55c2@paradox.zwell.net>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:55:52AM -0600, Dan Zwell wrote:
> Method returns a configuration value if defined, or the default
> value that was passed in, otherwise.
>
> The main purpose of this method is to allow the empty string to
> be a valid configuration option, and to replace the following
> construct:
>
> $val = $repo->config('my.key') || $default_val
The config subroutine does not currently take a third argument. Is there
a particular reason not to make $repo->config('my.key', $default_val)
the equivalent of config_default?
> +in situations where the empty string is an acceptable return value.
> +This method may also be called in a vector context, when expecting
The term "vector context" is not commonly used. Most of the perl
documentation calls it "list context" (try googling for each and seeing
the hit numbers).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 4:13 [PATCH] Color support added to git-add--interactive Dan Zwell
2007-10-13 8:12 ` Jeff King
2007-10-13 12:49 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-13 12:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-13 14:45 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-13 16:38 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2007-10-13 17:14 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-13 18:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-13 16:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-13 17:27 ` Jeff King
2007-10-13 17:51 ` Jeff King
2007-10-13 20:03 ` Dan Zwell
2007-10-13 20:36 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-13 21:50 ` Dan Z
2007-10-13 22:23 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2007-10-15 3:43 ` Jeff King
2007-10-17 0:47 ` revised: " Dan Zwell
2007-10-17 1:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 7:57 ` Dan Zwell
2007-10-17 8:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-22 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Dan Zwell
2007-10-23 2:11 ` [PATCH] resend of git-add--interactive color patch against spearce/pu Dan Zwell
2007-10-23 2:19 ` [PATCH] Let git-add--interactive read "git colors" from git-config Dan Zwell
2007-10-23 4:29 ` Jeff King
2007-10-23 4:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-23 4:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Jeff King
2007-10-23 6:28 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-23 6:41 ` Jeff King
2007-10-23 7:44 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-22 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] Let git-add--interactive read colors from git-config Dan Zwell
2007-10-23 4:27 ` Jeff King
2007-10-23 8:52 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-03 3:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-04 4:57 ` Jeff King
2007-11-04 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-04 5:43 ` Jeff King
2007-11-11 0:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] Adding colors to git-add--interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 7:54 ` Jeff King
2007-11-11 8:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-11 8:39 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 10:54 ` [PATCH 0/5] Colors for git-add--interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 11:57 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-22 10:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 10:55 ` [PATCH 2/5] Don't return 'undef' in case called in a vector context Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 12:06 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-23 4:15 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 10:55 ` [PATCH 3/5] Added config_default($key, $default) to Git.pm Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 12:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-11-22 10:56 ` [PATCH 4/5] Let git-add--interactive read colors from configuration Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 12:18 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-22 22:30 ` Jeff King
2007-11-23 5:32 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-23 9:09 ` Jeff King
2007-11-23 9:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-22 10:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] Added diff hunk coloring to git-add--interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-22 12:25 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-23 10:21 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 22:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-11 0:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 0:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] Let git-add--interactive read colors from .gitconfig Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 0:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Added diff hunk coloring to git-add--interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 10:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-11 2:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] Adding colors " Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 2:23 ` Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Added basic color support to git add --interactive Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-11 2:23 ` Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Let git-add--interactive read colors from .gitconfig Dan Zwell
2007-11-11 9:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-11 10:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 1:39 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-13 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 2:55 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-13 7:26 ` Jeff King
2007-11-13 7:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 8:25 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-13 9:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-03 3:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Dan Zwell
2007-11-03 5:06 ` *[PATCH " Junio C Hamano
2007-11-03 7:26 ` Dan Zwell
2007-11-03 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-15 4:12 ` [PATCH] Color support added to git-add--interactive Jeff King
2007-10-13 20:21 ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-13 20:26 ` Tom Tobin
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