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+# Copyright (C) 2014, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors
+# License: AGPLv3 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt)
+package PublicInbox::Config;
+
+# returns key-value pairs of config directives in a hash
+sub dump {
+ my ($class, $file) = @_;
+
+ local $ENV{GIT_CONFIG} = $file;
+
+ my @cfg = `git config -l`;
+ $? == 0 or die "git config -l failed: $?\n";
+ chomp @cfg;
+ my %rv = map { split(/=/, $_, 2) } @cfg;
+ \%rv;
+}
+
+1;
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+# Copyright (C) 2014, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors
+# License: AGPLv3 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt)
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test::More;
+use PublicInbox::Config;
+use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
+my $tmpdir = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
+
+{
+ is(system(qw(git init --bare), $tmpdir), 0, "git init successful");
+ {
+ local $ENV{GIT_DIR} = $tmpdir;
+ is(system(qw(git config foo.bar hihi)), 0, "set config");
+ }
+
+ my $tmp = PublicInbox::Config->dump("$tmpdir/config");
+
+ is("hihi", $tmp->{"foo.bar"}, "config read correctly");
+ is("true", $tmp->{"core.bare"}, "used --bare repo");
+}
+
+done_testing();