From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:32:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-config: case insensitivity for subsections
Message-ID: <7vpqjti3dq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110825205849.GA10384@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm not sure it makes sense to do so. I can see how:
>
>   [section.SUBSECTION]
>
> and
>
>   [section.subsection]
>
> should be merged. But isn't:
>
>   [section "SUBSECTION"]
>
> conceptually a different section entirely?

I still recall getting scolded by Linus after writing [sec.tion]; this was
way back when he was still active on this list. I essentially was told
that [sec "tion"] is _the_ only supported way, and [sec.tion] may work but
it purely does by accident, not by design.

Do we still even list the bogus [section.SUBSECTION] syntax anywhere in
our docs? If so, we should remove them and if not we simply just should
deprecate the code to read such input.