Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: May 8, 2006, 01:11 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605071751050.3718@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 7 May 2006 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, 7 May 2006, sean wrote:
> > 
> > Having magic sections that prepend "branch." seems a bit suspect;
> > why not just be explicit:
> > 
> >   [branch.Origin]
> >       URL = ...
> >       fetch = master
> 
> Exactly because section (and key) names are normally not case sensitive.

Restore case sensitivity to config file parsing and the problem largely goes away. Or go the other route and remove case sensitivity from all the other bits (branches names etc..).

Sean