From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General support for ! in git-config values
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:57:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANgJU+WCdsF+igCWoueYcChYBvNyj5je_kvWorCBOgh5D7Bb9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7h06109t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 2 February 2012 02:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2 February 2012 01:27, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> user.name=!ldap_full_name
>>>> user.email=!ldap_email
>>>
>>> I didn't get the impression that that was what he was proposing, but
>>> regardless of who's suggesting it, the above does not make any sense,
>>> from the syntax point of view.
>>
>> Does that mean that from a utility point of view it does?
>
> Not really.
>
> I do not think whatever "utility" value outweighs the hassle of having to
> think through the ramifications (including but not limited to security) of
> running arbitrary user command every time a value is looked up.
Why is that your problem? If I have to enable it then isn't that my choice?
--
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 17:33 General support for ! in git-config values Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-02-01 18:40 ` 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 [this message]
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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