Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] config.txt: describe handling of whitespace further

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2024, 14:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4jd1hsm0.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <c4f0e7311edce5d4ed4a55f290de9eaf@manjaro.org>

Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:

>>     Leading whitespace characters before and after 'name =', and the
> Hmm, "leading whitespace" and "after" don't go very well together.

True. We can drop "leading" of course. I meant to refer to, in this sample illustration,

[section]
	var = value # comment

the fact that "\t" before "var =" is discarded, and " " after "var =" before "value" is also discarded.

Thanks.

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