On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 18:45 -0400, sean wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:42:25 -0700 > Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does this mean you can have anything other than LF and ']'? > > Anything but LF; how's this for ugly: > > ["hello Worl\]d \\backslash] Actually, LF is already handled just fine in the value part: [proski@dv .git]$ git-repo-config s1.k1 $'v1\nv2' [proski@dv .git]$ grep [sk]1 config [s1] k1 = v1\nv2 Note that quoting doesn't solve this problem (unless multi-line section headers are allowed), but backslash escaping does. But I guess everybody prefers quotes for their friendly look. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html