Merge branch 'master' into js/diff-ni

diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 5d1ccaa125e8322b687a70af5da98798034bc971..b5b1cf5edcd860e88c461c600d3fa841654fef76 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ sub command_input_pipe {
 =item command_close_pipe ( PIPE [, CTX ] )
 
 Close the C<PIPE> as returned from C<command_*_pipe()>, checking
-whether the command finished successfuly. The optional C<CTX> argument
+whether the command finished successfully. The optional C<CTX> argument
 is required if you want to see the command name in the error message,
 and it is the second value returned by C<command_*_pipe()> when
 called in array context. The call idiom is:
@@ -516,6 +516,36 @@ sub config {
 }
 
 
+=item config_boolean ( VARIABLE )
+
+Retrieve the boolean configuration C<VARIABLE>.
+
+Must be called on a repository instance.
+
+This currently wraps command('config') so it is not so fast.
+
+=cut
+
+sub config_boolean {
+       my ($self, $var) = @_;
+       $self->repo_path()
+               or throw Error::Simple("not a repository");
+
+       try {
+               return $self->command_oneline('config', '--bool', '--get',
+                                             $var);
+       } catch Git::Error::Command with {
+               my $E = shift;
+               if ($E->value() == 1) {
+                       # Key not found.
+                       return undef;
+               } else {
+                       throw $E;
+               }
+       };
+}
+
+
 =item ident ( TYPE | IDENTSTR )
 
 =item ident_person ( TYPE | IDENTSTR | IDENTARRAY )