From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 22:45:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP124D39CDBCFC35738102D0AEA90@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <7vu07y252m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:42:25 -0700
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > The syntax is:
> >
> >   [<random string>]
> 
> Does this mean you can have anything other than LF and ']'?

Anything but LF; how's this for ugly:

    ["hello Worl\]d \\backslash]

> > 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?  

The same way they do now.  For instance git-repo-config processes
the config file using the same get_config() + callback as usual.  The
only issue is that they should no longer cast everything to lower first.

Sean