Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2007, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701171334410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701171311.36358.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> No key or value can contain "\n".

I just tried this:

	$ cat > .git/config << EOF
	[section] key = "Hello\nWorld"
	EOF
	$ git-repo-config -l
	section.key=Hello
	World

So, values _can_ contain newlines.

> With "\n" as separator you can simply rrturn NUL in the noval case.

Which would buy you what exactly? You can tell that the user did not say "noval = true", but "noval". Great. But the _effect_ should be the same!

Anyway, I realize you don't like my solution, so I will just shut up.

Ciao, Dscho

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