Re: how exactly can git config section names contain periods?

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Jun 3, 2018, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <8fe323a2-60ae-8382-ed0e-bfe772052b7f@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1806030547070.5332@localhost.localdomain>

Am 03.06.2018 um 11:53 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:

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> if i wanted to do something this admittedly awkward, would using
> periods give me some benefit related to, i don't know, regex matching,
> as compared to using a different character? or am i just way
> overthinking this? is anyone out there actually taking advantage of
> multi-level subsections?

There is nothing wrong with having all of these

     git config foo.a.b.c.key value
     git config foo.a.b.c value
     git config foo.a.b.key value

in a single configuration file, I think. There is nothing special there. They're three different settings in two different (sub-)sections.

-- Hannes