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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:42:40PM -0700, milki wrote:

> A user gave me a link [1] to his git-config and I cannot correctly
> parse, for example, his alias.last.
> [...]
> [1] https://github.com/kergoth/homefiles/blob/master/.gitconfig#L67

Isn't his config somewhat broken?  It looks like this:

  last = "!f(){ since="$1"; shift; git lg --since=\"last $since\" "$@"; }; f"

Those interior double-quotes should all be backslash-escaped. I didn't
check, but git should interpret this as:

  !f(){ since=$1; shift; git lg --since="last $since" $@; }; f

which is probably not quite what he wanted (the quotes around $1 were
actually superfluous, but the ones around $@ are important).

That being said, I think it is intentional that the value is not just "a
single double-quoted chunk" but rather could consist of several quoted
(or unquoted) chunks concatenated together. What does your parser think
of:

  [foo]
    bar = "foo"bar"baz"

It should be:

  $ git config foo.bar
  foobarbaz

-Peff