Re: Should 'git config' support key with dot such as 'a.b'
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Mar 18, 2008, 00:42 UTC
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"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote: >> 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.
I am not interested in this at all. I would usually say "it is not clear what advantage this has", but in this case, I would rather say "it is clear there is no advantage in this".