Re: [GSoC PATCH 1/2] userdiff: add builtin driver for gitconfig syntax

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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:20:15PM -0300, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:
> > From Documentation/config.adoc:
> >
> > """
> > The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with
> > the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
> > section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric
> > characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable
> > must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section
> > header before the first setting of a variable.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
> > newline and the null byte.
> >
> > The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
> > and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
> > """
>
> I don't think it's necessary to quote this whole paragraph here, as most
> of us should be quite familiar with its format. I'd rather summarize the
> info a bit and explain how we can use the userdiff patterns for the
> general structure of the config. And in case there are any subtleties in
> the format it may make sense to specifically point out those instead of
> quoting the whole manual.