Re: General support for ! in git-config values

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:44:05AM +0100, demerphq wrote:

> The general design of git seems to me to be based around providing
> building blocks that people can use to build new and interesting tools
> on top of, and so it seems counter to that philosophy to reject an
> feature based on speculative security issues that really can't be
> decided in advance but must instead be decided on a case by case
> basis.

I can't speak for Junio, but I am certainly not rejecting it. Only
saying that it needs to be thought through, and the utility weighed
against the costs. So far I haven't seen an actual patch to comment on
(or even a proposed syntax beyond starting a string with "!", which I
think is a non-starter due to conflicting with existing uses), nor have
I seen a concrete use case (you mentioned pulling the name/email from
ldap, but you also mentioned that there are lots of other ways of
solving that particular problem, so it's not especially compelling).

I'd be happy to hear a more concrete proposal.

-Peff