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From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 18:45:19 -0400
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On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:42:25 -0700
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > The syntax is:
> >
> >   [<random string>]
> 
> Does this mean you can have anything other than LF and ']'?

Anything but LF; how's this for ugly:

    ["hello Worl\]d \\backslash]

> > 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?  

The same way they do now.  For instance git-repo-config processes
the config file using the same get_config() + callback as usual.  The
only issue is that they should no longer cast everything to lower first.

Sean