Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 11:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191208300.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070619021252.GE19725@planck.djpig.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > Another possibility, though, is to say:
> > 
> > 	core.some\0where\0core.over\0\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0
> 
> How do you denote empty values then?
> 
> [section]
> 	key=
> 	key
> 
> this are two very different statements atm (e.g. the one is false and
> the other one is true).
> 
> I still think using two different delimiters is the simplest choice.

Okay, good point. But of course, you have to use a delimiter for the key name that cannot be part of the keyname. You picked '\n'. The original was '='. Both work.

Ciao, Dscho