From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:07:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add contrib/credentials/netrc with GPG support, try #2
Message-ID: <7v7gmmvj5p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87sj5ariar.fsf@lifelogs.com>

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:15:47 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: 
>
> JCH> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>>> - do you want to support backslashed newlines?
>
> JCH> What for?  netrc/authinfo is not a line oriented file format at all,
> JCH> and
>
> JCH> 	machine k.org
> JCH> 	        	login me
> JCH>                         password mysecret
>
> JCH> is a single entry; you do not need backslash at the end of any line.
>
> Hmm. The parser I implemented only does single-line parsing, and I
> misunderstood the format to be single-line (partly because I have never
> seen anyone using the multi-line format you show).  Looking at
> Net::Netrc more carefully, it seems that the "machine" token is what
> defines an entry, so a new entry starts with a new line that contains a
> "machine" token.  Is that acceptable and does it match your
> understanding of the format?  It matches Net::Netrc, at least.

I thought I've given a more concrete outline than "I'll read
Net::Netrc and do whatever I think it does" in a separate message.

It would be better to read "man netrc" carefully at least once ;-)