From: SZEDER Gábor Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 10:35:10 GMT Subject: Re: how exactly can git config section names contain periods? Message-ID: <20180603103510.21020-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:14:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > ok, so how on earth would i use "git config" at the command line > > > to set a config variable with some arbitrary level of subsections? > > > let's try this: > > > > You don't. There are only three levels: section, (optional) > > subsection, and key. If there is a subsection, it consists of > > _everything_ between the two outer periods. > if (for some weird reason) i wanted to define a multi-level > subsection, You can't, there are no multi-level subsections, see above.