From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:23:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Message-ID: <20080619012310.GA25307@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181721580.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:23:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Have you read "man git-config" lately?
> 
> That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about 
> the machine format!

Forget the command git-config; all of the config _variables_ are
documented in "foo.bar" form. Name one place in all of the documentation
where the user can find out about core.pager, but the "foo.bar" form is
not used.

-Peff