From: Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:50:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections
Message-ID: <1314579031.10094.19.camel@umgah.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20110825215757.GA94231@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:57 -0700, milki wrote:
> This was simply surprising as I was trying to figure out what exactly
> case sensitivity meant and how it affected sections. This definitely
> clears this up for me. I'm actually working on a config parser because I
> don't think I've seen a complete implementation besides git-config in a
> different language.

For reference, https://github.com/bestpractical/config-gitlike/ is a
complete parser for git config files written in perl, which passes git's
config test suite (among other tests).  Which is not terribly
surprising, since its parsing algorithm is strongly derived from
config.c's.
 - Alex