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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 19, 2007, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701191420000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701191310.32417.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> From a bit of testing, as documentation of config file format is 
> woefully incomplete, (yes, I know I should use the source) _some_ of C 
> escape sequences aka. character escape codes (CEC) are parsed:

No, you should not just use the source. You should use the source _and_ complete the documentation.

Ciao, Dscho

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