Crate gix_config

gix_config

This crate is a high performance git-config file reader and writer. It exposes a high level API to parse, read, and write git-config files.

This crate has a few primary offerings and various accessory functions. The table below gives a brief explanation of all offerings, loosely in order from the highest to lowest abstraction.

Offering	Description	Zero-copy?
File	Accelerated wrapper for reading and writing values.	On some reads1
parse::State	Syntactic events for git-config files.	Yes
value wrappers	Wrappers for git-config value types.	Yes

This crate also exposes efficient value normalization which unescapes characters and removes quotes through the normalize_* family of functions, located in the value module.

Known differences to the git config specification

• Legacy headers like [section.subsection] are supposed to be turned into to lower case and compared case-sensitively. We keep its case and compare case-insensitively.

Feature Flags

• serde — Data structures implement serde::Serialize and serde::Deserialize.

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1. When read values do not need normalization and it wasn’t parsed in ‘owned’ mode. ↩

Modules

• color
• file
  A high level wrapper around a single or multiple git-config file, for reading and mutation.
• integer
• lookup
• parse
  This module handles parsing a git-config file. Generally speaking, you want to use a higher abstraction such as File unless you have some explicit reason to work with events instead.
• path
• source
• value

Structs

• Boolean
  Any value that can be interpreted as a boolean.
• Color
  Any value that may contain a foreground color, background color, a collection of color (text) modifiers, or a combination of any of the aforementioned values, like red or brightgreen.
• File
  High level git-config reader and writer.
• Integer
  Any value that can be interpreted as an integer.
• Path
  Any value that can be interpreted as a path to a resource on disk.

Enums

• Source
  A list of known sources for git configuration in order of ascending precedence.