"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:

quoted text
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:22 PM, John Chapman <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > +_gitConfig = {}
> >  def gitConfig(key):
> > -    return read_pipe("git config %s" % key, ignore_error=True).strip()
> > +    if not _gitConfig.has_key(key):
> > +        _gitConfig[key] = read_pipe("git config %s" % key, ignore_error=True).strip()
> > +    return _gitConfig[key]
> 
> If this is truly a noticeable bottleneck on Windows, something like
> the following might be even better:  (completely untested!)
> 
> _gitConfig = None
> def gitConfig(key):
>   if _gitConfig is None:
>     lines = read_pipe("git config -l", ignore_error=True).readlines():
>     _gitConfig = dict([l.strip().split('=', 1) for l in lines])
>   return _gitConfig.get(key, None)

Wouldn't it be better to use "git config -l -z", split lines at "\0"
(NUL), and split key from value at first "\N" (CR)? This format was
meant for scripts.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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