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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: General support for ! in git-config values
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:33:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX6U+1Fmdaz2ikbbc6zUyF=pMGQOqUGVOWCkUFBUkovCBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

alias.* values can start with !, in which case a shell command will be
executed with the arguments you give.

For a program I'm working on (git-deploy) I'd like to have this as a
general facility, i.e. users can specify either:

    foo.bar = value

Or:

    foo.bar = !cat /some/path

I'm wondering why git-config doesn't do this already, if there's no
reason in particular I can just patch it in, either as a new option:

    git config --with-exec --get foo.bar

Or as the default behavior.

             reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 17:33 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2012-02-01 18:40 ` General support for ! in git-config values Jeff King
2012-02-01 21:25   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-02-01 22:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  0:16       ` demerphq
2012-02-02  0:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  1:14           ` demerphq
2012-02-02  1:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  1:57               ` demerphq
2012-02-02  2:38                 ` Jeff King
2012-02-02  9:44                   ` demerphq
2012-02-02  9:54                     ` Jeff King
2012-02-02 10:21                       ` demerphq
2012-02-03  5:08                         ` Kyle Moffett
2012-02-03  6:11                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-03  7:35                             ` Kyle Moffett
2012-02-03 12:13                             ` Jeff King
2012-02-03 12:09                           ` Jeff King
2012-02-02  1:41             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  2:06               ` demerphq

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