From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:40 +0200
Message-ID: <20070619152139.GF19725@planck.djpig.de>
References: <f2t6na$5bi$1@sea.gmane.org> <11821227322913-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706190151160.4059@racer.site> <7v645kyba8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <20070619021252.GE19725@planck.djpig.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191208300.4059@racer.site>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 19 17:21:57 2007
Return-path: <git-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org
Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167])
	by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50)
	id 1I0fWk-0000gW-UH
	for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:55 +0200
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id S1752717AbXFSPVt (ORCPT <rfc822;gcvg-git@m.gmane.org>);
	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:21:49 -0400
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752661AbXFSPVt
	(ORCPT <rfc822;git-outgoing>); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:21:49 -0400
Received: from planck.djpig.de ([85.10.192.180]:1643 "EHLO planck.djpig.de"
	rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id S1752625AbXFSPVs (ORCPT <rfc822;git@vger.kernel.org>);
	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:21:48 -0400
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by planck.djpig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6229C88102;
	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:46 +0200 (CEST)
X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at planck.djpig.de
Received: from planck.djpig.de ([127.0.0.1])
	by localhost (planck.djpig.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
	with ESMTP id W5zizCUoiqjS; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:41 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by planck.djpig.de (Postfix, from userid 1000)
	id DADD188105; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:40 +0200 (CEST)
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191208300.4059@racer.site>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk
X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50489>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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.

No, they actually don't.

Example:

$ cat .git/config
[foo "bar=baz"]
	key = value
[foo]
	key = key=value
$ git config -l
foo.bar=baz.key=value
foo.key=key=value

So how do I parse that?

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
www: http://www.djpig.de/