Re: [PATCH] config.txt: Document behavior of backslashes in subsections

2017-12-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Dave Borowitz writes: > Unrecognized escape sequences are invalid in values: > > $ git config -f - --list < [foo] > bar = "\t\\\y\"\u" > EOF > fatal: bad config line 2 in standard input > > But in subsection names, the backslash is simply dropped if the > following character does not

[PATCH] config.txt: Document behavior of backslashes in subsections

2017-12-21 Thread Dave Borowitz
Unrecognized escape sequences are invalid in values: $ git config -f - --list < --- Documentation/config.txt | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b18c0f97fe..f772186c44 100644 --- a/Documentati