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From:   Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:42:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] config: learn the --stdin option for instructions
To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:24 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> >     set SP <key> SP <value> NUL
> >     unset SP <key> LF
>
> The section and key parts of a config key are pretty restricted, but the
> subsection portion can contain anything except newline and NUL. So in
> particular, it would be valid to have a space, which would make the
> input ambiguous.

I was wondering if that might be the case (particularly, if space was
allowed). Thanks for the education.