Re: [PATCH] Add contrib/credentials/netrc with GPG support, try #2

Ted Zlatanov [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:15:47 -0800 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote: 

JCH> Ted Zlatanov [off-list ref] writes:

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- do you want to support backslashed newlines?

JCH> What for?  netrc/authinfo is not a line oriented file format at all,
JCH> and

JCH> 	machine k.org
JCH> 	        	login me
JCH>                         password mysecret

JCH> is a single entry; you do not need backslash at the end of any line.

Hmm. The parser I implemented only does single-line parsing, and I
misunderstood the format to be single-line (partly because I have never
seen anyone using the multi-line format you show).  Looking at
Net::Netrc more carefully, it seems that the "machine" token is what
defines an entry, so a new entry starts with a new line that contains a
"machine" token.  Is that acceptable and does it match your
understanding of the format?  It matches Net::Netrc, at least.

I thought I've given a more concrete outline than "I'll read
Net::Netrc and do whatever I think it does" in a separate message.

It would be better to read "man netrc" carefully at least once ;-)