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|  | 177 |  | 
|  | 178 | div.quoteblock > div.attribution { | 
|  | 179 | padding-top: 0.5em; | 
|  | 180 | text-align: right; | 
|  | 181 | } | 
|  | 182 |  | 
|  | 183 | div.verseblock > div.content { | 
|  | 184 | white-space: pre; | 
|  | 185 | } | 
|  | 186 | div.verseblock > div.attribution { | 
|  | 187 | padding-top: 0.75em; | 
|  | 188 | text-align: left; | 
|  | 189 | } | 
|  | 190 | /* DEPRECATED: Pre version 8.2.7 verse style literal block. */ | 
|  | 191 | div.verseblock + div.attribution { | 
|  | 192 | text-align: left; | 
|  | 193 | } | 
|  | 194 |  | 
|  | 195 | div.admonitionblock .icon { | 
|  | 196 | vertical-align: top; | 
|  | 197 | font-size: 1.1em; | 
|  | 198 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 199 | text-decoration: underline; | 
|  | 200 | color: #527bbd; | 
|  | 201 | padding-right: 0.5em; | 
|  | 202 | } | 
|  | 203 | div.admonitionblock td.content { | 
|  | 204 | padding-left: 0.5em; | 
|  | 205 | border-left: 3px solid #dddddd; | 
|  | 206 | } | 
|  | 207 |  | 
|  | 208 | div.exampleblock > div.content { | 
|  | 209 | border-left: 3px solid #dddddd; | 
|  | 210 | padding-left: 0.5em; | 
|  | 211 | } | 
|  | 212 |  | 
|  | 213 | div.imageblock div.content { padding-left: 0; } | 
|  | 214 | span.image img { border-style: none; } | 
|  | 215 | a.image:visited { color: white; } | 
|  | 216 |  | 
|  | 217 | dl { | 
|  | 218 | margin-top: 0.8em; | 
|  | 219 | margin-bottom: 0.8em; | 
|  | 220 | } | 
|  | 221 | dt { | 
|  | 222 | margin-top: 0.5em; | 
|  | 223 | margin-bottom: 0; | 
|  | 224 | font-style: normal; | 
|  | 225 | color: navy; | 
|  | 226 | } | 
|  | 227 | dd > *:first-child { | 
|  | 228 | margin-top: 0.1em; | 
|  | 229 | } | 
|  | 230 |  | 
|  | 231 | ul, ol { | 
|  | 232 | list-style-position: outside; | 
|  | 233 | } | 
|  | 234 | ol.arabic { | 
|  | 235 | list-style-type: decimal; | 
|  | 236 | } | 
|  | 237 | ol.loweralpha { | 
|  | 238 | list-style-type: lower-alpha; | 
|  | 239 | } | 
|  | 240 | ol.upperalpha { | 
|  | 241 | list-style-type: upper-alpha; | 
|  | 242 | } | 
|  | 243 | ol.lowerroman { | 
|  | 244 | list-style-type: lower-roman; | 
|  | 245 | } | 
|  | 246 | ol.upperroman { | 
|  | 247 | list-style-type: upper-roman; | 
|  | 248 | } | 
|  | 249 |  | 
|  | 250 | div.compact ul, div.compact ol, | 
|  | 251 | div.compact p, div.compact p, | 
|  | 252 | div.compact div, div.compact div { | 
|  | 253 | margin-top: 0.1em; | 
|  | 254 | margin-bottom: 0.1em; | 
|  | 255 | } | 
|  | 256 |  | 
|  | 257 | div.tableblock > table { | 
|  | 258 | border: 3px solid #527bbd; | 
|  | 259 | } | 
|  | 260 | thead, p.table.header { | 
|  | 261 | font-family: sans-serif; | 
|  | 262 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 263 | } | 
|  | 264 | tfoot { | 
|  | 265 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 266 | } | 
|  | 267 | td > div.verse { | 
|  | 268 | white-space: pre; | 
|  | 269 | } | 
|  | 270 | p.table { | 
|  | 271 | margin-top: 0; | 
|  | 272 | } | 
|  | 273 | /* Because the table frame attribute is overriden by CSS in most browsers. */ | 
|  | 274 | div.tableblock > table[frame="void"] { | 
|  | 275 | border-style: none; | 
|  | 276 | } | 
|  | 277 | div.tableblock > table[frame="hsides"] { | 
|  | 278 | border-left-style: none; | 
|  | 279 | border-right-style: none; | 
|  | 280 | } | 
|  | 281 | div.tableblock > table[frame="vsides"] { | 
|  | 282 | border-top-style: none; | 
|  | 283 | border-bottom-style: none; | 
|  | 284 | } | 
|  | 285 |  | 
|  | 286 |  | 
|  | 287 | div.hdlist { | 
|  | 288 | margin-top: 0.8em; | 
|  | 289 | margin-bottom: 0.8em; | 
|  | 290 | } | 
|  | 291 | div.hdlist tr { | 
|  | 292 | padding-bottom: 15px; | 
|  | 293 | } | 
|  | 294 | dt.hdlist1.strong, td.hdlist1.strong { | 
|  | 295 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 296 | } | 
|  | 297 | td.hdlist1 { | 
|  | 298 | vertical-align: top; | 
|  | 299 | font-style: normal; | 
|  | 300 | padding-right: 0.8em; | 
|  | 301 | color: navy; | 
|  | 302 | } | 
|  | 303 | td.hdlist2 { | 
|  | 304 | vertical-align: top; | 
|  | 305 | } | 
|  | 306 | div.hdlist.compact tr { | 
|  | 307 | margin: 0; | 
|  | 308 | padding-bottom: 0; | 
|  | 309 | } | 
|  | 310 |  | 
|  | 311 | .comment { | 
|  | 312 | background: yellow; | 
|  | 313 | } | 
|  | 314 |  | 
|  | 315 | .footnote, .footnoteref { | 
|  | 316 | font-size: 0.8em; | 
|  | 317 | } | 
|  | 318 |  | 
|  | 319 | span.footnote, span.footnoteref { | 
|  | 320 | vertical-align: super; | 
|  | 321 | } | 
|  | 322 |  | 
|  | 323 | #footnotes { | 
|  | 324 | margin: 20px 0 20px 0; | 
|  | 325 | padding: 7px 0 0 0; | 
|  | 326 | } | 
|  | 327 |  | 
|  | 328 | #footnotes div.footnote { | 
|  | 329 | margin: 0 0 5px 0; | 
|  | 330 | } | 
|  | 331 |  | 
|  | 332 | #footnotes hr { | 
|  | 333 | border: none; | 
|  | 334 | border-top: 1px solid silver; | 
|  | 335 | height: 1px; | 
|  | 336 | text-align: left; | 
|  | 337 | margin-left: 0; | 
|  | 338 | width: 20%; | 
|  | 339 | min-width: 100px; | 
|  | 340 | } | 
|  | 341 |  | 
|  | 342 |  | 
|  | 343 | @media print { | 
|  | 344 | div#footer-badges { display: none; } | 
|  | 345 | } | 
|  | 346 |  | 
|  | 347 | div#toc { | 
|  | 348 | margin-bottom: 2.5em; | 
|  | 349 | } | 
|  | 350 |  | 
|  | 351 | div#toctitle { | 
|  | 352 | color: #527bbd; | 
|  | 353 | font-family: sans-serif; | 
|  | 354 | font-size: 1.1em; | 
|  | 355 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 356 | margin-top: 1.0em; | 
|  | 357 | margin-bottom: 0.1em; | 
|  | 358 | } | 
|  | 359 |  | 
|  | 360 | div.toclevel1, div.toclevel2, div.toclevel3, div.toclevel4 { | 
|  | 361 | margin-top: 0; | 
|  | 362 | margin-bottom: 0; | 
|  | 363 | } | 
|  | 364 | div.toclevel2 { | 
|  | 365 | margin-left: 2em; | 
|  | 366 | font-size: 0.9em; | 
|  | 367 | } | 
|  | 368 | div.toclevel3 { | 
|  | 369 | margin-left: 4em; | 
|  | 370 | font-size: 0.9em; | 
|  | 371 | } | 
|  | 372 | div.toclevel4 { | 
|  | 373 | margin-left: 6em; | 
|  | 374 | font-size: 0.9em; | 
|  | 375 | } | 
|  | 376 | /* Workarounds for IE6's broken and incomplete CSS2. */ | 
|  | 377 |  | 
|  | 378 | div.sidebar-content { | 
|  | 379 | background: #ffffee; | 
|  | 380 | border: 1px solid silver; | 
|  | 381 | padding: 0.5em; | 
|  | 382 | } | 
|  | 383 | div.sidebar-title, div.image-title { | 
|  | 384 | color: #527bbd; | 
|  | 385 | font-family: sans-serif; | 
|  | 386 | font-weight: bold; | 
|  | 387 | margin-top: 0.0em; | 
|  | 388 | margin-bottom: 0.5em; | 
|  | 389 | } | 
|  | 390 |  | 
|  | 391 | div.listingblock div.content { | 
|  | 392 | border: 1px solid silver; | 
|  | 393 | background: #f4f4f4; | 
|  | 394 | padding: 0.5em; | 
|  | 395 | } | 
|  | 396 |  | 
|  | 397 | div.quoteblock-attribution { | 
|  | 398 | padding-top: 0.5em; | 
|  | 399 | text-align: right; | 
|  | 400 | } | 
|  | 401 |  | 
|  | 402 | div.verseblock-content { | 
|  | 403 | white-space: pre; | 
|  | 404 | } | 
|  | 405 | div.verseblock-attribution { | 
|  | 406 | padding-top: 0.75em; | 
|  | 407 | text-align: left; | 
|  | 408 | } | 
|  | 409 |  | 
|  | 410 | div.exampleblock-content { | 
|  | 411 | border-left: 3px solid #dddddd; | 
|  | 412 | padding-left: 0.5em; | 
|  | 413 | } | 
|  | 414 |  | 
|  | 415 | /* IE6 sets dynamically generated links as visited. */ | 
|  | 416 | div#toc a:visited { color: blue; } | 
|  | 417 | </style> | 
|  | 418 | <script type="text/javascript"> | 
|  | 419 | /*<+'])'); | 
|  | 463 | // Function that scans the DOM tree for header elements (the DOM2 | 
|  | 464 | // nodeIterator API would be a better technique but not supported by all | 
|  | 465 | // browsers). | 
|  | 466 | var iterate = function (el) { | 
|  | 467 | for (var i = el.firstChild; i != null; i = i.nextSibling) { | 
|  | 468 | if (i.nodeType == 1 /* Node.ELEMENT_NODE */) { | 
|  | 469 | var mo = re.exec(i.tagName); | 
|  | 470 | if (mo && (i.getAttribute("class") || i.getAttribute("className")) != "float") { | 
|  | 471 | result[result.length] = new TocEntry(i, getText(i), mo[1]-1); | 
|  | 472 | } | 
|  | 473 | iterate(i); | 
|  | 474 | } | 
|  | 475 | } | 
|  | 476 | } | 
|  | 477 | iterate(el); | 
|  | 478 | return result; | 
|  | 479 | } | 
|  | 480 |  | 
|  | 481 | var toc = document.getElementById("toc"); | 
|  | 482 | var entries = tocEntries(document.getElementById("content"), toclevels); | 
|  | 483 | for (var i = 0; i < entries.length; ++i) { | 
|  | 484 | var entry = entries[i]; | 
|  | 485 | if (entry.element.id == "") | 
|  | 486 | entry.element.id = "_toc_" + i; | 
|  | 487 | var a = document.createElement("a"); | 
|  | 488 | a.href = "#" + entry.element.id; | 
|  | 489 | a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(entry.text)); | 
|  | 490 | var div = document.createElement("div"); | 
|  | 491 | div.appendChild(a); | 
|  | 492 | div.className = "toclevel" + entry.toclevel; | 
|  | 493 | toc.appendChild(div); | 
|  | 494 | } | 
|  | 495 | if (entries.length == 0) | 
|  | 496 | toc.parentNode.removeChild(toc); | 
|  | 497 | }, | 
|  | 498 |  | 
|  | 499 |  | 
|  | 500 | ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// | 
|  | 501 | // Footnotes generator | 
|  | 502 | ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// | 
|  | 503 |  | 
|  | 504 | /* Based on footnote generation code from: | 
|  | 505 | * http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2005/07/format_footnote.html | 
|  | 506 | */ | 
|  | 507 |  | 
|  | 508 | footnotes: function () { | 
|  | 509 | var cont = document.getElementById("content"); | 
|  | 510 | var noteholder = document.getElementById("footnotes"); | 
|  | 511 | var spans = cont.getElementsByTagName("span"); | 
|  | 512 | var refs = {}; | 
|  | 513 | var n = 0; | 
|  | 514 | for (i=0; i<spans.length; i++) { | 
|  | 515 | if (spans[i].className == "footnote") { | 
|  | 516 | n++; | 
|  | 517 | // Use [\s\S] in place of . so multi-line matches work. | 
|  | 518 | // Because JavaScript has no s (dotall) regex flag. | 
|  | 519 | note = spans[i].innerHTML.match(/\s*\[([\s\S]*)]\s*/)[1]; | 
|  | 520 | noteholder.innerHTML += | 
|  | 521 | "<div class='footnote' id='_footnote_" + n + "'>" + | 
|  | 522 | "<a href='#_footnoteref_" + n + "' title='Return to text'>" + | 
|  | 523 | n + "</a>. " + note + "</div>"; | 
|  | 524 | spans[i].innerHTML = | 
|  | 525 | "[<a id='_footnoteref_" + n + "' href='#_footnote_" + n + | 
|  | 526 | "' title='View footnote' class='footnote'>" + n + "</a>]"; | 
|  | 527 | var id =spans[i].getAttribute("id"); | 
|  | 528 | if (id != null) refs["#"+id] = n; | 
|  | 529 | } | 
|  | 530 | } | 
|  | 531 | if (n == 0) | 
|  | 532 | noteholder.parentNode.removeChild(noteholder); | 
|  | 533 | else { | 
|  | 534 | // Process footnoterefs. | 
|  | 535 | for (i=0; i<spans.length; i++) { | 
|  | 536 | if (spans[i].className == "footnoteref") { | 
|  | 537 | var href = spans[i].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("href"); | 
|  | 538 | href = href.match(/#.*/)[0]; // Because IE return full URL. | 
|  | 539 | n = refs[href]; | 
|  | 540 | spans[i].innerHTML = | 
|  | 541 | "[<a href='#_footnote_" + n + | 
|  | 542 | "' title='View footnote' class='footnote'>" + n + "</a>]"; | 
|  | 543 | } | 
|  | 544 | } | 
|  | 545 | } | 
|  | 546 | } | 
|  | 547 |  | 
|  | 548 | } | 
|  | 549 | /*]]>*/ | 
|  | 550 | </script> | 
|  | 551 | </head> | 
|  | 552 | <body> | 
|  | 553 | <div id="header"> | 
|  | 554 | <h1>config API</h1> | 
|  | 555 | </div> | 
|  | 556 | <div id="content"> | 
|  | 557 | <div id="preamble"> | 
|  | 558 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 559 | <div class="paragraph"><p>The config API gives callers a way to access git configuration files | 
| Junio C Hamano | 022bd34 | 2012-06-07 20:15:35 | [diff] [blame^] | 560 | (and files which have the same syntax). See <a href="../git-config.html">../git-config(1)</a> for a | 
| Junio C Hamano | e0238c2 | 2012-02-23 22:45:50 | [diff] [blame] | 561 | discussion of the config file syntax.</p></div> | 
|  | 562 | </div> | 
|  | 563 | </div> | 
|  | 564 | <h2 id="_general_usage">General Usage</h2> | 
|  | 565 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 566 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Config files are parsed linearly, and each variable found is passed to a | 
|  | 567 | caller-provided callback function. The callback function is responsible | 
|  | 568 | for any actions to be taken on the config option, and is free to ignore | 
|  | 569 | some options. It is not uncommon for the configuration to be parsed | 
|  | 570 | several times during the run of a git program, with different callbacks | 
|  | 571 | picking out different variables useful to themselves.</p></div> | 
|  | 572 | <div class="paragraph"><p>A config callback function takes three parameters:</p></div> | 
|  | 573 | <div class="ulist"><ul> | 
|  | 574 | <li> | 
|  | 575 | <p> | 
|  | 576 | the name of the parsed variable. This is in canonical "flat" form: the | 
|  | 577 | section, subsection, and variable segments will be separated by dots, | 
|  | 578 | and the section and variable segments will be all lowercase. E.g., | 
|  | 579 | <tt>core.ignorecase</tt>, <tt>diff.SomeType.textconv</tt>. | 
|  | 580 | </p> | 
|  | 581 | </li> | 
|  | 582 | <li> | 
|  | 583 | <p> | 
|  | 584 | the value of the found variable, as a string. If the variable had no | 
|  | 585 | value specified, the value will be NULL (typically this means it | 
|  | 586 | should be interpreted as boolean true). | 
|  | 587 | </p> | 
|  | 588 | </li> | 
|  | 589 | <li> | 
|  | 590 | <p> | 
|  | 591 | a void pointer passed in by the caller of the config API; this can | 
|  | 592 | contain callback-specific data | 
|  | 593 | </p> | 
|  | 594 | </li> | 
|  | 595 | </ul></div> | 
|  | 596 | <div class="paragraph"><p>A config callback should return 0 for success, or -1 if the variable | 
|  | 597 | could not be parsed properly.</p></div> | 
|  | 598 | </div> | 
|  | 599 | <h2 id="_basic_config_querying">Basic Config Querying</h2> | 
|  | 600 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 601 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Most programs will simply want to look up variables in all config files | 
|  | 602 | that git knows about, using the normal precedence rules. To do this, | 
|  | 603 | call <tt>git_config</tt> with a callback function and void data pointer.</p></div> | 
|  | 604 | <div class="paragraph"><p><tt>git_config</tt> will read all config sources in order of increasing | 
|  | 605 | priority. Thus a callback should typically overwrite previously-seen | 
|  | 606 | entries with new ones (e.g., if both the user-wide <tt>~/.gitconfig</tt> and | 
|  | 607 | repo-specific <tt>.git/config</tt> contain <tt>color.ui</tt>, the config machinery | 
|  | 608 | will first feed the user-wide one to the callback, and then the | 
|  | 609 | repo-specific one; by overwriting, the higher-priority repo-specific | 
|  | 610 | value is left at the end).</p></div> | 
|  | 611 | <div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>git_config_with_options</tt> function lets the caller examine config | 
|  | 612 | while adjusting some of the default behavior of <tt>git_config</tt>. It should | 
|  | 613 | almost never be used by "regular" git code that is looking up | 
|  | 614 | configuration variables. It is intended for advanced callers like | 
|  | 615 | <tt>git-config</tt>, which are intentionally tweaking the normal config-lookup | 
|  | 616 | process. It takes two extra parameters:</p></div> | 
|  | 617 | <div class="dlist"><dl> | 
|  | 618 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 619 | <tt>filename</tt> | 
|  | 620 | </dt> | 
|  | 621 | <dd> | 
|  | 622 | <p> | 
|  | 623 | If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the name of a file to | 
|  | 624 | parse for configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. Regular | 
|  | 625 | <tt>git_config</tt> defaults to <tt>NULL</tt>. | 
|  | 626 | </p> | 
|  | 627 | </dd> | 
|  | 628 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 629 | <tt>respect_includes</tt> | 
|  | 630 | </dt> | 
|  | 631 | <dd> | 
|  | 632 | <p> | 
|  | 633 | Specify whether include directives should be followed in parsed files. | 
|  | 634 | Regular <tt>git_config</tt> defaults to <tt>1</tt>. | 
|  | 635 | </p> | 
|  | 636 | </dd> | 
|  | 637 | </dl></div> | 
|  | 638 | <div class="paragraph"><p>There is a special version of <tt>git_config</tt> called <tt>git_config_early</tt>. | 
|  | 639 | This version takes an additional parameter to specify the repository | 
|  | 640 | config, instead of having it looked up via <tt>git_path</tt>. This is useful | 
|  | 641 | early in a git program before the repository has been found. Unless | 
|  | 642 | you’re working with early setup code, you probably don’t want to use | 
|  | 643 | this.</p></div> | 
|  | 644 | </div> | 
|  | 645 | <h2 id="_reading_specific_files">Reading Specific Files</h2> | 
|  | 646 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 647 | <div class="paragraph"><p>To read a specific file in git-config format, use | 
|  | 648 | <tt>git_config_from_file</tt>. This takes the same callback and data parameters | 
|  | 649 | as <tt>git_config</tt>.</p></div> | 
|  | 650 | </div> | 
|  | 651 | <h2 id="_value_parsing_helpers">Value Parsing Helpers</h2> | 
|  | 652 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 653 | <div class="paragraph"><p>To aid in parsing string values, the config API provides callbacks with | 
|  | 654 | a number of helper functions, including:</p></div> | 
|  | 655 | <div class="dlist"><dl> | 
|  | 656 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 657 | <tt>git_config_int</tt> | 
|  | 658 | </dt> | 
|  | 659 | <dd> | 
|  | 660 | <p> | 
|  | 661 | Parse the string to an integer, including unit factors. Dies on error; | 
|  | 662 | otherwise, returns the parsed result. | 
|  | 663 | </p> | 
|  | 664 | </dd> | 
|  | 665 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 666 | <tt>git_config_ulong</tt> | 
|  | 667 | </dt> | 
|  | 668 | <dd> | 
|  | 669 | <p> | 
|  | 670 | Identical to <tt>git_config_int</tt>, but for unsigned longs. | 
|  | 671 | </p> | 
|  | 672 | </dd> | 
|  | 673 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 674 | <tt>git_config_bool</tt> | 
|  | 675 | </dt> | 
|  | 676 | <dd> | 
|  | 677 | <p> | 
|  | 678 | Parse a string into a boolean value, respecting keywords like "true" and | 
|  | 679 | "false". Integer values are converted into true/false values (when they | 
|  | 680 | are non-zero or zero, respectively). Other values cause a die(). If | 
|  | 681 | parsing is successful, the return value is the result. | 
|  | 682 | </p> | 
|  | 683 | </dd> | 
|  | 684 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 685 | <tt>git_config_bool_or_int</tt> | 
|  | 686 | </dt> | 
|  | 687 | <dd> | 
|  | 688 | <p> | 
|  | 689 | Same as <tt>git_config_bool</tt>, except that integers are returned as-is, and | 
|  | 690 | an <tt>is_bool</tt> flag is unset. | 
|  | 691 | </p> | 
|  | 692 | </dd> | 
|  | 693 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 694 | <tt>git_config_maybe_bool</tt> | 
|  | 695 | </dt> | 
|  | 696 | <dd> | 
|  | 697 | <p> | 
|  | 698 | Same as <tt>git_config_bool</tt>, except that it returns -1 on error rather | 
|  | 699 | than dying. | 
|  | 700 | </p> | 
|  | 701 | </dd> | 
|  | 702 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 703 | <tt>git_config_string</tt> | 
|  | 704 | </dt> | 
|  | 705 | <dd> | 
|  | 706 | <p> | 
|  | 707 | Allocates and copies the value string into the <tt>dest</tt> parameter; if no | 
|  | 708 | string is given, prints an error message and returns -1. | 
|  | 709 | </p> | 
|  | 710 | </dd> | 
|  | 711 | <dt class="hdlist1"> | 
|  | 712 | <tt>git_config_pathname</tt> | 
|  | 713 | </dt> | 
|  | 714 | <dd> | 
|  | 715 | <p> | 
| Junio C Hamano | 022bd34 | 2012-06-07 20:15:35 | [diff] [blame^] | 716 | Similar to <tt>git_config_string</tt>, but expands <tt>~</tt> or <tt>~user</tt> into the | 
| Junio C Hamano | e0238c2 | 2012-02-23 22:45:50 | [diff] [blame] | 717 | user’s home directory when found at the beginning of the path. | 
|  | 718 | </p> | 
|  | 719 | </dd> | 
|  | 720 | </dl></div> | 
|  | 721 | </div> | 
|  | 722 | <h2 id="_include_directives">Include Directives</h2> | 
|  | 723 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 724 | <div class="paragraph"><p>By default, the config parser does not respect include directives. | 
|  | 725 | However, a caller can use the special <tt>git_config_include</tt> wrapper | 
|  | 726 | callback to support them. To do so, you simply wrap your "real" callback | 
|  | 727 | function and data pointer in a <tt>struct config_include_data</tt>, and pass | 
|  | 728 | the wrapper to the regular config-reading functions. For example:</p></div> | 
|  | 729 | <div class="listingblock"> | 
|  | 730 | <div class="content"> | 
|  | 731 | <pre><tt>int read_file_with_include(const char *file, config_fn_t fn, void *data) | 
|  | 732 | { | 
|  | 733 | struct config_include_data inc = CONFIG_INCLUDE_INIT; | 
|  | 734 | inc.fn = fn; | 
|  | 735 | inc.data = data; | 
|  | 736 | return git_config_from_file(git_config_include, file, &inc); | 
|  | 737 | }</tt></pre> | 
|  | 738 | </div></div> | 
|  | 739 | <div class="paragraph"><p><tt>git_config</tt> respects includes automatically. The lower-level | 
|  | 740 | <tt>git_config_from_file</tt> does not.</p></div> | 
|  | 741 | </div> | 
|  | 742 | <h2 id="_writing_config_files">Writing Config Files</h2> | 
|  | 743 | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | 744 | <div class="paragraph"><p>TODO</p></div> | 
|  | 745 | </div> | 
|  | 746 | </div> | 
|  | 747 | <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div> | 
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