Johannes Schindelin wrote: > As for the FIXME: [...] Please read original message carefully: >> Note the FIXME. Does anyone remember the reason why --get-regexp >> and --list use different output format? I think the FIXME is for --get-regexp. And was added by the patch. > If you have a config like this: > > [core] > Some = where > over > the = core.rainbow > > git-config -z would output something like this: > > core.some\0where\0core.over\0core.the\0core.rainbow\0 > > Right? False. Delim is different from term. You would get core.some\nwhere\0core.over\0core.the\ncore.rainbow\0 > As you can see, it is quite hard for a parser to find out what is > key, and what is value. local $/ = "\0"; while (my $line = <$fd>) { chomp $line; my ($key, $value) = split(/\n/, $line, 2); push @{$config{$key}}, $value if defined $key; } -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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