[PATCH] Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Oct 12, 2011, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <1318434726-5556-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

Using the [section.subsection] syntax, the subsection is transformed to lower-case and is matched case sensitively. Say so in the documentation and mention that you shouldn't be using it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
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This bit me recently when I was creating a parser. See Jeff's explanation here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/179569/focus=180290

 Documentation/config.txt |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0658ffb..1212c47 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ 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.
 
-There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
-In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
-names.
+There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
+syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
+compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
+restrictions as section names.
 
 All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
 header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form

-- 
1.7.6.557.gcee4