{"thread":{"id":"46920","subject":"is it \"core.excludesfile\" or \"core.excludesFile\"?","startedAt":"2017-10-05T21:25:53Z","lastAt":"2017-10-06T00:47:58Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Robert P. J. Day","Stefan Beller","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"329814","messageId":"alpine.LFD.2.21.1710051724350.2478@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"46920","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"is it \"core.excludesfile\" or \"core.excludesFile\"?","fromName":"Robert P. J. Day","fromEmail":"rpjday@crashcourse.ca","sentAt":"2017-10-05T21:25:46Z","receivedAt":"2017-10-05T21:25:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rpjday@crashcourse.ca","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/226084077?v=4"},"body":"\n  more pedantic nitpickery, but the git source/docs seems to bounce\nall over the place as to which of those forms is the right one.\nopinions?\n\nrday\n\n-- \n\n========================================================================\nRobert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA\n                        http://crashcourse.ca\n\nTwitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday\nLinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday\n========================================================================\n"},{"id":"329815","messageId":"CAGZ79kZof3SWE_Pyb1ADVtkfD2+9ukV+nNBgwxt6xa52Vrmk6A@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46920","inReplyTo":"alpine.LFD.2.21.1710051724350.2478@localhost.localdomain","subject":"Re: is it \"core.excludesfile\" or \"core.excludesFile\"?","fromName":"Stefan Beller","fromEmail":"sbeller@google.com","sentAt":"2017-10-05T21:32:16Z","receivedAt":"2017-10-05T21:32:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stefanbeller@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/455868?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:\n>\n>   more pedantic nitpickery, but the git source/docs seems to bounce\n> all over the place as to which of those forms is the right one.\n> opinions?\n\nIn the code we use all lowercase to compare (any input is converted to\nlowercase);\nin the docs we try to come up with a sufficient cameLcase to not\nconfuse the user.\nIn tests, I don't know?\n"},{"id":"329828","messageId":"xmqqvajt5cg8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com","threadId":"46920","inReplyTo":"CAGZ79kZof3SWE_Pyb1ADVtkfD2+9ukV+nNBgwxt6xa52Vrmk6A@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: is it \"core.excludesfile\" or \"core.excludesFile\"?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2017-10-06T00:47:51Z","receivedAt":"2017-10-06T00:47:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:\n\n> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:\n>>\n>>   more pedantic nitpickery, but the git source/docs seems to bounce\n>> all over the place as to which of those forms is the right one.\n>> opinions?\n>\n> In the code we use all lowercase to compare (any input is converted to\n> lowercase);\n> in the docs we try to come up with a sufficient cameLcase to not\n> confuse the user.\n> In tests, I don't know?\n\nUnless the test is about making sure that section.var and\nSecTion.Var are treated the same (and section.subsection.var and\nsection.subSection.var are treated differently), it is preferrable\nto use multiWordSection.multiWordVar in tests for consistency and\nfor documentation value.\n"}]}