Hi, On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > No key or value can contain "\n". I just tried this: $ cat > .git/config << EOF [section] key = "Hello\nWorld" EOF $ git-repo-config -l section.key=Hello World So, values _can_ contain newlines. > With "\n" as separator you can simply rrturn NUL in the noval case. Which would buy you what exactly? You can tell that the user did not say "noval = true", but "noval". Great. But the _effect_ should be the same! Anyway, I realize you don't like my solution, so I will just shut up. Ciao, Dscho - 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