Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: May 8, 2006, 01:04 UTC
Message-ID: <1147050279.17371.20.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605071751050.3718@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 17:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2006, sean wrote:
> > 
> > Having magic sections that prepend "branch." seems a bit suspect;
> > why not just be explicit:
> > 
> >   [branch.Origin]
> >       URL = ...
> >       fetch = master
> 
> Exactly because section (and key) names are normally not case sensitive.
> 
> Even the documentation actually talks about "core.fileMode" and "[imap] 
> Folders".

Make it ["branch.Origin"]

No hardcoded "branch" prepending needed. The case sensitive name is still protected by quotes. This extends trivially to ["user.Linus"] or ["path./src/git.c"] or whatever.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin