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

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2008, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320803171740of822d02medc5911e0d056eb4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803141138340.24600@racer.site>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>
>  On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
>
>  > 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?
>
>  I don't like it at all.  Historically, we had much stricter rules on the
>  variable names than the second part of the section names.
>
>  Also, your suggestion would make things even more confusing than beginners
>  already complain Git is.
>

Beginners will not edit config file directly. If they do, they can follow the usaual syntax. So beginners don't have to know the new syntax.

But for advanced users, the config file can be edited freely with more free syntax. With current syntax, 'submodule' will be repeated tons of times when having tons of submoudles. Why not make life much easier for advanced users in such case?

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Ping Yin