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Re: An anomaly, not a bug

From
Alexei Lozovsky <a.lozovsky@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2016, 22:20 UTC
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> Note: the comments can be started away from the left margin,
> as normal in all unix-linux configuration files we know of.
> Git follows this behaviour fine.
Actually, git reads
    # comment

as 'ignore files with name " " (4 spaces)', and then a comment. It does not ignore the leading whitespace.

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