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Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections

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milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Date
Aug 25, 2011, 21:57 UTC
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<20110825215757.GA94231@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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<20110825205849.GA10384@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 16:58 Thu 25 Aug     , Jeff King wrote:
> Is there a reason that you can't use the canonical version in your "git
> config" invocation? Or was it simply confusing that it didn't work? I'd
> much prefer to document this limitation in git-config(1) than change the
> code.

This was simply surprising as I was trying to figure out what exactly case sensitivity meant and how it affacted 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.

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  3. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2011
  4. Jeff KingAug 25, 2011
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  8. Jeff KingAug 29, 2011
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