Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output

From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 15:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20070619152139.GF19725@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191208300.4059@racer.site>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Okay, good point. But of course, you have to use a delimiter for the key 
> name that cannot be part of the keyname. You picked '\n'. The original was 
> '='. Both work.

No, they actually don't.

Example:

$ cat .git/config
[foo "bar=baz"]
	key = value
[foo]
	key = key=value
$ git config -l
foo.bar=baz.key=value
foo.key=key=value

So how do I parse that?

Gruesse,

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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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