On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:42:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> The document did not say anything about escaping/quoting of values, but it > >> may not be a bad idea to make it more explicit over there. > > > > There is no quoting or escaping. As the document says, "the value may > > contain any bytes except a newline". It doesn't mention that keys cannot > > contain an "=" or a newline, though that is also true. > > This also was a documentation comment; "may contain any bytes" can be > followed with "and used as-is" and I wouldn't have been confused. Makes sense. I'll tweak for the next version. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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