From d1d47e9813e74c308be031e92d2b0b4f479e9c28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Conor MacNeill <conor@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:55:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Handle continuations in section names PR:	4075

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@269776 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java     | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
index 2c62575f5..bc5bd8e14 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
@@ -275,9 +275,18 @@ public class Manifest {
                 if (line.charAt(0) == ' ') {
                     // continuation line
                     if (attribute == null) {
-                        throw new ManifestException("Can't start an attribute with a continuation line " + line);
+                        if (name != null) {
+                            // a continuation on the first line is a continuation of the name - concatenate
+                            // this line and the name
+                            name += line.substring(1);
+                        }
+                        else {
+                            throw new ManifestException("Can't start an attribute with a continuation line " + line);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        attribute.addContinuation(line);
                     }
-                    attribute.addContinuation(line);
                 }
                 else {
                     attribute = new Attribute(line);