Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2011, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7v62juayra.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1318434726-5556-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

> This bit me recently when I was creating a parser. See Jeff's
> explanation here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/179569/focus=180290

I think you meant to focus on 180123 but anyway I think the updated text reads much better.

Thanks.

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>  Documentation/config.txt |    7 ++++---
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 0658ffb..1212c47 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ lines.  Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
>  You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
>  don't need to.
>  
> -There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
> -In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
> -names.
> +There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
> +syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
> +compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
> +restrictions as section names.
>  
>  All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
>  header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form