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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 15:42:25 -0700
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sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

> The syntax is:
>
>   [<random string>]

Does this mean you can have anything other than LF and ']'?

> Here's how your example would look in this style:
>
>   [email.torvalds@osdl.org]
>         name = Linus Torvalds

How does a program (not a script, but git_config() users) get
that value and parse it?