From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:38:01 GMT Subject: [PATCH 7/8] config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections Message-ID: <1240479482-31366-8-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1240479482-31366-7-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd --- Documentation/config.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1f17e7a..acd9b31 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ is used to store the information for that repository, and fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` can be used to store system-wide defaults. -They can be used by both the git plumbing -and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where -in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last +The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing +and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein +the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times. @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ in the section header, like in the example below: -------- -Subsection names can contain any character except newline (doublequote -`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, -respectively) and are case sensitive. Section headers cannot span multiple +Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except +newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, +respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't need to. -- 1.6.2.3