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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
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Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> 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.

Right, I completely forgot that we actually allow all kinds of special 
characters, in order to be able to say "branch.<branchname>.merge" for all 
kinds of branchnames.

Incidentally, I think I found a bug:

[foo "bar\nbaz"]
	key = value

gives

foo.barbaz.key=value

Ciao,
Dscho