Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 9, 2006, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu07y252m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

> The syntax is:
>
>   [<random string>]

Does this mean you can have anything other than LF and ']'?

> Here's how your example would look in this style:
>
>   [email.torvalds@osdl.org]
>         name = Linus Torvalds

How does a program (not a script, but git_config() users) get that value and parse it?

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