Re: [PATCH 0/3] "git config --get-urlmatch $section.$key $url"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> So here is a bit of refactoring to extract the logic to find the
>> entry $section.<urlpattern>.$key from the configuration that best
>> matches the given $url to answer "what value $section.$key should be
>> for $url?" out of http.c (primarily because we never want to link
>> "git cofnig" with the cURL library), and use it from "git config" to
>> implement Peff's idea to extend "git config".
>> 
>> The first step is a pure code movement, plus some renaming of the
>> functions.
>> 
>> The second step is to factor out the code to handle --bool, --int, etc.
>> as a helper so that the new codepath can use it.
>> 
>> The last step currently duplicates the logic in http_options(), but
>> we might want to refactor it further so that the two functions can
>> share more code.  We hopefully can get rid of test-url-normalize and
>> instead use "git config --get-urlmatch" in the tests that protect
>> the http.<url>.config topic.
>
> I haven't been following this topic too closely and I don't have any
> feel for how long it will take to get to the end-game. However, unless
> the removal of test-url-normalize is coming soon, could I request that
> you apply my patch (or squash it into this series)? At present, I have
> to apply the patch before building the next and pu branches; OK it's not
> too onerous, but still ... :-P

Will squash in.  Thanks for a reminder.