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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:37:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X7YSq9zgTgfFCF1N@ncase> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201119021116.GE389879@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 02:11:16AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2020-11-18 at 07:04:30, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:25:32AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > > Sure, that could be an option.  It's the simplest, and we already know
> > > how to handle config this way.  People will be able to figure out how to
> > > use it pretty easily.
> > 
> > At first, this idea sounds quite interesting. But only until one
> > realizes that it's got the exact same problem which I'm trying to solve:
> > there's still a point in time where one can observe config values via
> > the command line, even though that moment now is a lot shorter compared
> > to running the "real" git command with those keys.
> 
> I don't think that's the case.  This command:
> 
>   git --env-config a.b.c=ENV_VAR
> 
> would be equivalent to this shell command:
> 
>   git -c "a.b.c=$ENV_VAR"
> 
> In other words, ENV_VAR is the _name_ of a environment variable to read
> for the config value.  Subprocesses would inherit it using the
> undocumented GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS.
> 
> Or are you trying to hide the configuration key as well?

No. I just didn't realize that it's supposed to be the name of an
envvar.

Patrick

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-13 12:16 [PATCH 0/2] config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-13 12:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] config: extract function to parse config pairs Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-13 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-13 13:04   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-16 19:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-17  2:34       ` Jeff King
2020-11-17  6:37         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-17  7:01           ` Jeff King
2020-11-17 14:22         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-17 23:57           ` Jeff King
2020-11-18 13:44             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-18  0:50         ` brian m. carlson
2020-11-18  1:59           ` Jeff King
2020-11-18  2:25             ` brian m. carlson
2020-11-18  7:04               ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-19  2:11                 ` brian m. carlson
2020-11-19  6:37                   ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2020-11-18  5:44           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-17  6:28       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-17  7:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-18 13:49           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-18 13:56             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-18 16:01             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-17 14:03       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-13 16:37   ` Philip Oakley
2020-11-17  6:40     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2020-11-13 13:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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