Wrongful error on `\b` character in git config

[CEbbinghaus]

Error

C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\8.0.114\Sdks\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git\build\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.targets(25,5): error : Error reading git repository information: Error parsing config line 13 in file '[Path To Repo]\.git\config': Unexpected character U+005c.

Breakdown

This error originiates from the following switch case which wrongfully throws on the \b escaped character despite that being explicitly mentioned by the git config documentation.

sourcelink/src/Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git/GitDataReader/GitConfig.Reader.cs

Lines 557 to 589 in 0fceecb

	switch (reader.Peek())
	{
	case '\r':
	case '\n':
	ReadToLineEnd(reader);
	continue;
	case 'n':
	reader.Read();
	builder.Append('\n');
	// escaped \n is not considered trailing whitespace:
	lengthIgnoringTrailingWhitespace = builder.Length;
	continue;
	case 't':
	reader.Read();
	builder.Append('\t');
	// escaped \t is not considered trailing whitespace:
	lengthIgnoringTrailingWhitespace = builder.Length;
	continue;
	case '\\':
	case '"':
	builder.Append((char)reader.Read());
	lengthIgnoringTrailingWhitespace = builder.Length;
	continue;
	default:
	reader.UnexpectedCharacter(c);
	break;
	}

source

The following escape sequences (beside " and \) are recognized: \n for newline character (NL), \t for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) and \b for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal escape sequences) are invalid.