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Should 'git config' support key with dot such as 'a.b'

From
Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 14, 2008, 08:24 UTC
Message-ID
<46dff0320803140124t1469defsf7002f720cf2002e@mail.gmail.com>

I find it is so annoying to write submodule definition as follows (yeah, only url, without path)

------------------------------
[submodule 'crawler']
    url = url1
[submodule 'search']
    url = url2
------------------------------
I think the following form is more simple
---------------------------------
[submodule]
     crawler.url = url1
     search.url = url2
---------------------------------
So, could we support such simpler form?
-- 
Ping Yin
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